Some kids who were tested with the highest IQs acted like the stupidest sacks of shit imaginable.

Me! Me! Well, okay, I just tended to slack HARD instead of doing my work. And yet I tested highest of all the gifted kids in my gifted class. Which I only know because my teacher pointed it out to the class. I think she was trying to explain to them that smarts != success or something. (She was very fond of me, but my poor study habits were a known issue.)

Really, it was probably undiagnosed ADD issues at play, but I still think it's funny, even 20+ years later.

The ones higher than that tend to have the brain-in-a-jar quality, where you get a sense that no amount of explanation will let you understand what they're thinking.

I'm higher than that, and I swear I make sense most some of the time! And no one would ever mistake me for a brain in a jar. But see above re: study skills. I own my apparent waste of potential, and suspect it's made me a happier person.

I think a lot depends on how a person gets socialized - I went to college with some truly smart people who weren't safe out without a keeper. And I think "success" - however you define it - depends largely on how you use what you have.

If skill at multiple choice tests had any relationship to life, I'd be living in a mansion with cabana boys.

AND you'd have picked the right ones!

Plei, I didn't mean the lost potential kids. I mean the kids who are either too stupid to live in the wild of real life or so stupid that you look at them and think, "Did you get labeled as gifted in kinder just because you drew an interesting picture?" There are plenty who do well on IQ type tests but still can't read and comprehend a paragraph of text. I dunno how, but it's true.

Laura, Grace has been sick and rehospitalized. Noah continues on his fat and happy ways.

Last night, I went to Fresh and Easy, which is owned by Tesco and has recently opened in my neighborhood (which lacks reputable grocery stores). It was FASCINATING. I felt like I was grocery shopping in New Zealand. One of the weirdest things? I could have bought a prepared Turkey, bacon wrapped with sage and cooked it at home.

I mean the kids who are either too stupid to live in the wild of real life or so stupid that you look at them and think, "Did you get labeled as gifted in kinder just because you drew an interesting picture?" There are plenty who do well on IQ type tests but still can't read and comprehend a paragraph of text. I dunno how, but it's true.

And I think that all of these kids are now going to my university and signing up for costume lab.

I think a lot depends on how a person gets socialized - I went to college with some truly smart people who weren't safe out without a keeper. And I think "success" - however you define it - depends largely on how you use what you have.

Toddson = Very Smart.

Totally agree with the whole post.

When I left the workmen at my place this morning, they were getting ready to do something with tar. Anybody know what? They are working on a bathroom.

Probably putting in the shower pan--the floor of the shower that is tiled over needs to have a specific slope as well as being waterproof. They usually cut it from sheet metal and stick the seams together.

Well, okay, I just tended to slack HARD instead of doing my work. And yet I tested highest of all the gifted kids in my gifted class.

This was me. (Except the part about gifted class. We didn't have that.) I tested through the roof but I was a super slacker. I used to joke that my epitaph would read, "Kristen is very bright but does not apply herself."

Yes, I was morbid even as a small child.

"Did you get labeled as gifted in kinder just because you drew an interesting picture?" There are plenty who do well on IQ type tests but still can't read and comprehend a paragraph of text. I dunno how, but it's true.

Wild. Labelled and coddled, maybe? Or possibly another intersection of gifted and learning disabled?