Are you all supremely confident that you're intelligent

It dosen't matter how high your IQ but how much of it you use, I've met some people with very high IQ's in the past and they're so intelligent their almost incapacitated by it. They seem to look for complexities where none exist and find the simple, like making tea and toast very difficult. So on paper they may be in the genius level, but if they're only using half of it, they probably effectively score lower than average. IQ tests can be learned, the more you do the better you get at them.

I had long periods of my life where I was called thick and stupid, was bullied for not being as good as others, it took me a long time to recover from and it recovery was all done by myself, from doing puzzles like crosswords and word searches to get to grips with how words worked, to reading my way through the local libraries history section.

Now I am confident in my intelligence, but I admit the areas that I struggle with and if others have a problems with it, then it's their problem not mine and I don't need people like that in my life. I still struggle with the memories of being bullied about it all, but a while ago, I adopted a sort of time limit on worry. If something happened 30 years ago and those people are no longer in my life, some of them are dead and have been for years, why am I still worryiing about it? Would they even remember it or me for that matter? I think bullies often loom larger in the memories of their victims than we do in theirs.

As I relish a good discussion or debate, I welcome the challenge of someone trying to call me a fraud, I have had someone try to do that in the last few years. They said I didn't have a proper degree because I didn't go to a top uni and got all snobbish about it, I laughed at them and called them out, so did others, they went away disgusted at our combined love of our own ignorance, which I found even funnier.

It dosen't matter how high your IQ but how much of it you use, I've met some people with very high IQ's in the past and they're so intelligent their almost incapacitated by it. They seem to look for complexities where none exist and find the simple, like making tea and toast very difficult. So on paper they may be in the genius level, but if they're only using half of it, they probably effectively score lower than average. IQ tests can be learned, the more you do the better you get at them.

I had long periods of my life where I was called thick and stupid, was bullied for not being as good as others, it took me a long time to recover from and it recovery was all done by myself, from doing puzzles like crosswords and word searches to get to grips with how words worked, to reading my way through the local libraries history section.

Now I am confident in my intelligence, but I admit the areas that I struggle with and if others have a problems with it, then it's their problem not mine and I don't need people like that in my life. I still struggle with the memories of being bullied about it all, but a while ago, I adopted a sort of time limit on worry. If something happened 30 years ago and those people are no longer in my life, some of them are dead and have been for years, why am I still worryiing about it? Would they even remember it or me for that matter? I think bullies often loom larger in the memories of their victims than we do in theirs.

As I relish a good discussion or debate, I welcome the challenge of someone trying to call me a fraud, I have had someone try to do that in the last few years. They said I didn't have a proper degree because I didn't go to a top uni and got all snobbish about it, I laughed at them and called them out, so did others, they went away disgusted at our combined love of our own ignorance, which I found even funnier.