To be fair, he isnt able to share his thoughts with 99.9% of the people and even most of the 0.1% left are probably not as smart as he is. "it's lonely at the top" applies to every instance of life.

The same could be said for stamp collectors though. You can’t share every single thing with every single person

@@Creepystalker102 That's very true, but for him, it's not just one pursuit he happens to be very passionate about; he himself is on a completely different level overall, which makes it hard for him to connect to most people.

@@I_Willenbrock_Iyeah, that must be extremely isolating

Exactly

I also think the beauty of a relation- or friendship like that can be that the smarter person is challenged to explain the facts understandibly. The other person learns some stuff, the first can share what they love, and both are doing an act of love there. It can turn out to be really sweet once you comitted to it.

yeah but it's frustrating talking about something you have a deep understanding of and seeing the other person's eyes glaze over. you don't just want them to like listening to you, you want them to UNDERSTAND, otherwise you're wasting your breath. smart people don't have to be with someone AS smart as them but they do need to be with someone capable of learning and understanding. i may not automatically know about electrical components or statistical analysis but i can at least keep up when he explains how they work. how much happier would this guy be if he was with someone who at least understood what "determines the energy expended by subatomic particles" means? how needlessly frustrating must it be to try and share your passion with someone who hears "subatomic particles" and goes "like underwater boats?"

Tell me miss vargas was your friend an asshole because you couldn't understand? Because I fall in the opposing end and it's a simple enough lesson for me, smart doesn't mean I need to look down on people. Everyone has gifts I don't even if it's not intellectual. This jackass doesn't, and somehow its the wife's fault. Also it's possible to simplify complicated concepts.

I'm like that with my brother in law, my Dad and my best friend. They all work in specialized fields that I cannot grasp primarily because I have a learning disability involving math, time, spacial awareness, sense of direction etc and my bestie was studying biomechanchanical engineering. I on the other hand studied the arts. I'm not technically dumb in a sense, I have severe ADHD and a few learning disabilities. There's some things I can study religiously but my brain is literally unable to grasp...its like trying to fly. I'm actually quite smart but not in traditional skills or in the traditional ways that people associate with intelligence. I'm great in a pinch for obscure trivia on a vast veriety of topics and specialized information but ask me to do a math problem, read a non digital clock or give directions... I'm blank. I joke I'm the dumbest smart person you could meet. Lol Even though what my friends and family are talking about is complete gibberish to me completely beyond my grasp I'm trying to engage and ask questions. I like seeing people talk passionately about what they do. Luckily for me, my specialized skills are easily explained to people with visual demonstration and pictures so I rarely have this problem.

As a person who is a relatively good techie, I am not artistic. But bring in an interior designer to develop a paint and wallpaper plan and i can execute it as well as anybody. I just can't design it. I also have artwork that I enjoy, some of it by friends. However I can barely draw stick figures. My point is that we all cannot have every skill, but we can enjoy and benefit from the skills of others. Wouldn't ne rather boring if we were all the same?

House is literally medical Sherlock (House = Holmes, Watson = Wilson).

@@dietotakuwould you look at that! Never would’ve noticed but it’s plain as day

@@HaloHighlightz Isnt it?? Its something that completely flew over my head as a kid, and only really realized it when I watched hbomberguy's video on the BBC Sherlock series. This show is full of great callbacks and homages to the stories that inspired it, but honestly it's built its own brand of deductive reasoning and story telling that calling it a mere adaptation isn't covering everything wonderful this show itself has built on and inspired itself!

He’s literally the reason I got into computer diagnostics/IT. I watched this as a kid and loved that mystery solving aspect of it. Though I never wanted to go to med school I was into computers. This show literally created my career lmao

@@HaloHighlightz Same.

Or forced to dump themselves for the sake of society. If a 7 year old knows words only those in high academic settings know there’s a ‘ problem’ . How do I know? I was that 7 year old. Next thing I know I was on compliance pills I mean ADHD pills .

This

@@andreasanchez1453 yup, the disadvantages and the advantages. Being bullied, shunned, shamed, put down, ignored, misunderstood, etc... and doing 12th grade work in 5th grade. Then being a "failed" gifted kid because it was a requirement to know your months 😭 I'm still salty

The Unabomber, on paper, was an absolute genius. Borderline Hawking level.

No I think that’s just u

Elon musk for example. He’s pretty weird and awkward in public and looks like he over thinks everything he says

@@MaddoxMelton But not when he tweets, apparently. Plus, i don't get all this talk about the guy being a genius introvert, while he keeps spamming children between different women like some prize bull. He might be an IT prodigy, but a chap running a 3some with famous actresses is quite far from a definition of an introvert.

me: higher than average (but not crazy high) iq, socially awkward, overthinks everything, and i wont lie ive done dxm several times now and its wonderful. but im aware of the risks involved so i just smoke weed. when i smoke im not awkward anymore, it actually makes me very extroverted and talkative. i stop overthinking things, i have an easier time talking about stuff im going through with friends, makes me more creative (i have no creativity sober), and its relaxing which is nice because i have pretty bad anxiety but i dont take benzos

​​@@MaddoxMelton I have a hard time believing that he's some genius. I think he leans heavily on the people who work for him. He just happens to have an enormous ego and too much money.

Yeah, I have a friend who has 167 IQ, he is an asperges, does not know how to act socially but he is a overall amazing person, its always interesting to hear him explain things. I'm

She's masking, which is a useful tool for getting by butt it is extremely draining and the effects are cumulative Keep an eye on her, make sure she's taking time to decompress regularly, because being 30ish and hitting your breaking point is not healthy. It can cause a lot of physical ailments, I'd personally recommend regular therapy, even before she needs it.

My genius cousin took on a Californian valley girl personality. We assumed she was a people pleaser and a perfectionist. Until she graduated college (engineering) and companies started outbid each other for her employment. 😊

@@getmotivated1707 I'm autistic but I didn't get diagnosed till I was 18, so up until that point I had grown accustomed to masking by reflex. Then I go and get a customer service job. It gets draining, keeping that up for 8 hours a day 5 days a week, plus social life.

To fit in, smart girls will try to look average pretty regularly. Meanwhile, average girls try to look prettier than they are. So no one really knows how much potential is lost.

​@@carbine090909what does it matter how they look like? No one knows how much potential is lost no matter how they look like, pretty or not, because smart girls and woman are on the whole spectrum of attractiveness anyway, so them trying to look average doesn't hide them/their potential better/more.

The only way that comes to mind is the average Max0r video.

This is a skill that takes a lot of work as well as specific gifts in teaching. Not everyone has it. If he's mathematically more gifted than verbally gifted it might be too difficult for him. A former lecturer once told our class a story about teaching mentally challenged people some basic operative skills. This was in the context of teaching us about algorithms in a CS class. One of the things was teaching them how to put coins into a vending machine. So he taught this one guy how to put coins in the slot and then press the button to get the item, etcetera. Later on the guy became very frustrated with a vending machine that had the coin slot in the opposite orientation (horizontal versus vertical). He accidentally taught the guy one specific way of getting the coin into the slot, instead of a general algorithm of putting the coin into the slot. Gifted teachers, through talent and through practice, know these lessons and are able to appropriately dumb down for the audience while still getting the key points across and without teaching bad ideas that would hinder further understanding. This is not an easy task. It is helped by cognitive empathy (either from personal experience as a learner, or from experience teaching to learners). For extremely hyper-gifted people, to get that degree of cognitive empathy from personal experience, they have to go back in their minds to when they were at the level of the person they are teaching to. This is difficult enough for older people of regular intelligence who have to go back a couple of decades. Terrence Tao, a super-genius, was doing double digit multiplication at the age of 2. I've read that he's also a very good college professor, but you can't expect every super-genius to be so.

That gets old fast.

“There is no better way to learn than to teach” - Benjamin Whichcote, Dean of King’s College This dude is so far up his ass, it’s crazy that so many people think he’s a sympathetic character. Some of the smartest people or professors I’ve ever known would light up the room with their happiness if I showed a genuine interest in their work, even if I was completely clueless. They’d take the time to explain it to me, as a complete rookie, so that I could be as excited about it too. This guy has a wife that loves him to death and would obviously spend as much time as it took to learn how to appreciate his work, and he could easily try and make friends with people in the same field if he wanted “intelligent” conversation. He’s not a genius trapped by his own mind, he’s an emotionally unintelligent narcissist who thinks being learned makes him detached from being human, and one that takes drugs to try and ignore the fact that he’s just really dumb at the emotional side of being a person. You’d think House fans would get that considering that’s literally House’s entire character arc, but no, he’s somehow a tragic figure

yeah no... ever tried to teach you cat calculus? no? wonder why.

Relax we all go the same grave...

I feel like she WAS his cough syrup, or at least she worked for a little while. Maybe the idea of being dumber making him happier came to him when he saw how happy SHE was since she's "dumb", he started investing time into being around "the dumb" and making himself "dumber", resulting in him falling for her in his dumb state, which in turn gave him the conclusion. "being dumb and being around dumb results in love and happiness".

Probably partially due to sex but mainly because that's how all drugs work. She was so different compared to his normal life she toned him down. But like all drugs, he got used to her. She became the normal, which wasn't enough anymore. He had to go further to still feel the way he wanted to.

He lays it out in the dialogue. He was looking for a simpler life, a way to escape the double-edged sword of living with the ability to see what others don't. At the end of this clip, he says he didn't find any comfort in relationships with people more in his range of intelligence. That's for a different reason--too much cynicism.

If I remember correctly he tried to kill himself but he only broke his ribs or something like that, he met her at the hospital under the anesthesia´s effects and that's where he realized he "enjoyed" life while being drugged.

In the episode he explains that the two of them met when he was hospitalised for a broken rib. He was given pain killers that had a similar dumbness effect and he realised how happy he was while with her and while on the drugs. He fell in love with her while he wasn’t ‘clear’ and started using the cough syrup and booze to replicate that feeling.

You don't need a 170 I.Q. to Kama Sutra. Just saying.

"I think she would be more than willing to put a few hours in every day to have private tutoring learning about things he loves." It's one thing to say you know nothing about cars and your partner is a mechanic, or your partner is a huge hockey fan while you've never watched a game in your life. Those are gaps you can close. Someone with a sub-100 IQ is never going to understand extremely advanced scientific concepts, no matter how much they might want to.

@@jliller sure but the point is in the effort

​@@FioreCiliegia Effort alone is not enough.

​@@jlillerBut by doing it, and teaching her things, he could eventually dumb it down to a point that she understands.

I think that's the point

That's rough

Sounds like bs

I am the king of Oman bow down before me mortal.

I'm sorry. This sucks. I had a head injury a while back and although I was never officially diagnosed with anything, everything was harder for a long time. I don't think it fully got better, but I'm at the point where I've learnt techniques to be more organized and do most of what I'd stopped being able to do and things that haven't gotten better don't prevent me from living a life I like. I hope things get better for you.

@@BlancheNeigefan thank you for your kind words. I'm glad you are better.

@@loumona76 just focus man .stop whining about some fake BS to make yourself unique

@@hashakahwantstorepent.4176 Are you serious?

@@margodphd yes :)

@@loumona76 ADD plus high IQ is a nightmare until one learns to utilize it's strengths. Some never get the chance, no support, wrong place, wrong time, wrong family,time, body to be born in ... I almost took it away from myself. I know the feeling too well.

Most people are legit NPCs, or at least a good chunk of them. About 15% of people have 85 or lower. A large amount of people also have no internal monologue. No thoughts beyond whats happening directly in front of them.

@Muhammedlee all words are useless. We just add meaning to them so that people understand what were talking about

@Muhammedlee Technically intelligence does have an overall basic definition. "The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills." Now the definition itself is still broad but technically intelligence can be defined. I guess it just depends on how somebody acquires knowledge and skills and applies them. Everybody can do that to some degree but you can't call everybody intelligent.

@Muhammedlee Well at that point you'd be just playing around with semantics and getting nowhere. True, calling someone intelligent is very broad, but a categorization that works well for what it's used for. A genius musician is not necessarily a genius mathematician, but both have observable traits that can be measured. Both are intelligent, in different ways. The meaning of the word still gets across to most people. You can call Einstein a genius and Beethoven a genius, and people would get what you mean, even though Einstein never composed masterpieces, and Beethoven never published theoretical physics. You can be more specific, which you would do if you were, well, being more specific. But the original word "intelligent" can still be used to accurately describe both examples I gave. If for whatever reason "intelligent" isn't a word you'd use to describe either of them in a broad sense, then perhaps your brain works a little differently than the average person.

Neurodivergent as a term yeah

Yup. Would love to disagree, but that's simply the truth. The most dumb people I've met were also the happiest.

Indeed, there is actually a direct correlation in depression and nihilism the smarter a person is. Basically you get to a point where you start to really need meaning out of existence when there isn't much of any. It becomes harder to enjoy simple things or have meaningful conversation with those less knowledgeable, which makes you more lonely and longing for the connection that is hard for you to have. Luckily there are better ways to treat this and depending on where you live you can find like minded individuals more easily

And we must fight to fix things. Now get up. Never surrender.

I wish I was blissfully unaware of how stupid I am ..but I'm painfully aware of mistake and things that I can't do..

There is a reason as kids most of us didn't have to try to be happy it just came natural. But as you get older you learn more and more about the world and it just gets hard sometimes.

I don't recall Einstein being that much of an emo.

@@TheBermudaMan He was a raging alcoholic, possessed an inability to understand others to the point of being insensitive and unpleasant to be around, and thought to have been on the spectrum. Overall, he was an outgoing introvert that didn't understand that he made everyone uncomfortable, and being one of the few case studys where the negatives of autism actually helped him.

@@julianskilton200 I think you and I have different perceptions of the word "emo."

@@TheBermudaMan I didn't say he was? I said he didn't develop depression, pessimism, or "emo" because he didn't see the problem that would cause it. Essentially, ignorance is bliss.

I suspect that in such cases depression is a self- protecting mechanism. Like a thick insulating layer of foam to reduce the thinking and feeling to bearable levels. To be normal.

Nothing says I have a high IQ like owning a youtube account to watch clips of House 😁👍

Never agreed so much with a statement in my entire life.

What?

No, he should watch it all the time. That way he'll feel smart instead of actually being smart.

To be fair, you need to have a very high iq to watch Rick and Morty because... copypasta

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick and Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existencial catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Rick and Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.

I hate that show...

He bombed multiple papers at once

Lots of countries are deeply anti-intellectual too, like the US and the UK. In a lot of schools you'll get bullied or ostracized if you come across as too smart

Well he’s rude. And I’m autistic too. And crazy smart.

Us, on the spectrum can be logistical geniuses and emotional idiots. It can take decades sometimes to find a mature balance and even then it can be difficult sometimes. I imagine for neurotypical people it's at least a tad frustrating when theres a two hour tangent on the complex workings of a computer from 1980 to 2000 vs forgetting that an obvious fluctuation in someone's voice might mean something

@@peng3668 Scotland

@@pokemagetech He may seem rude & arrogant to people who dont know him, he is very blunt & honest.we are working on that,

@@sockruhtease Yes, you just explained my life! he is 17 so im used to it, as a mum I get sad & concerned at times but it doesnt last long. The lack of social skills is something he will learn a bit better although i constantly tell him to be careful when he is replying as it can be un kind & hurtful, now he appologises beforehand.

"When asked in a 2004 interview with The New York Times what his IQ is, Hawking gave a curt reply: "I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.""

Is that you, Lauren Boebert?

Bahhahahahahhah worst part you can have social conversation with serial killer than set down at the same table with one these trust it's all comes to the way people raised .... Coming from experience

do you find that when talking to most people, that you have to spend more time explaining the statement you just said, than the actual statement: and then feel annoyed after it happens a couple times and just decide to tone down your vernacular for the rest of the interaction, or just get more and more quiet until its over?

The worst part of it is the overthinking..

So many people don't get it.

They're not mutually exclusive.

@@JimBob1937 Gotta argue. There's smart, horse sense, street smarts, then there's the IQ stuff. The IQ stuff... It sets you apart. It really does.

@@artfuldodger7838 , not sure what my IQ is, but pretty certain a few people I crossed paths with (including a guy who had my degree in addition to a few other advanced ones) had pretty high IQs, and they were fairly happy in their life. Of course, this is assuming some level of honesty in our discussions, but they were generally pretty forthright. With more intelligence usually follows more knowledge, and the two tends to make one more aware of certain depressing aspects of our world. Yet, happiness is more dependent with how you cope with such things, not whether or not you’re aware of them.

Or even just rather be happy than unhappy I used to do a lot of dxm for the same reason

The social ostracization of intelligent people is self-driven--people who want to be smart use IQ as a system of measurement for intellect; truly smart people embrace the idea of acquired knowledge. The number of anxiety/depression riddled, high-IQ burn-outs illustrates that point well.

No, it's around 103. You just googled if for a quick answer, but the fact is that there is no "average" on anything in IQ. It's too malleable to be measured. It's just something to boast.

@@no_one01-5 , well, IQ is actually normalized to 100. That is why 100 is the mean. When comparing countries, the sampled scores are collected per country and then re-centered to a global average of 100, for comparison. Most sources put the US at 97, but some go a little higher. It isn't too useful to argue over 100 plus/minus a couple of points since that is just measurement error close to the mean.

Well , it's sort of true. I mean people get freaky all the time.

it's a terrible relationship he should get out of. she doesn't even try to understand, he doesn't even try to explain in layman's terms and acts crestfallen when she looks confused after the technical jargon doesn't land.

Actually, calm IS what they say or do. Especially if there are non-medical staff in the room. Because if the med staff panics, the other people panic more and stuff happens. Shouting codes and running around is part of the medical drama. It's not only firmly discouraged in hospitals, its also grounds for reprimand.

Get the referance lol

I was today years old when I learned that I was kinda like referring to the Goblet of Fire book it’s funny cuz it says Dumbledore said calmly and in the movie he’s like furious😂

You don't get it. When you can clearly see that your friend/partner doesn't understand what you're talking about, or only pretends to do so, you feel horrible. You feel miserable. It's even worse for him, being a genius, and being in love with his comparatively dumb wife. "Clearly, it's not just his high IQ that is keeping him separate from his partner." You're absolutely wrong. That's exactly what's keeping him separate. This isn't just a variation in interests or skills, if it were just that, they'd atleast understand each other. That's not the case here. Differences keep it fresh, but these aren't just differences in interests. "Something in his past, likely past feelings of isolation due to his differences, is creating a barrier in his mind that separates him from his partner, and he blames it on his IQ." Nah, it's just his IQ, he's absolutely right in doing so.

Therapy is often not helpful for people of high intelligence because the problem isnt that they dont see their own issues, its that they see all the issues better than most people, and understand the implications, many of which are terrifying and aweful. Then they have to get advice about how to feel about an issue from someone likely far less aware of things? I dont see it being helpful unless they manage to find a therapist on their same mental level. But lets be real, people that smart tend not to become therapists.

You don’t understand what you are talking about. Therapy is about a journey of self-discovery, they don’t just tell you what to think about things. A therapist doesn’t need to be as smart as their patient…

@@deepaparakkal4241 keep it down mediocre ant; he is right in every word he said. My wife doesn’t know a single thing that I have worked, and it’s fine. Do you wanna know why? She is being supportive in different ways, mostly being a normal wife to help me out with normal things around OUR house, around my life, to ease my stress as much as possible.

@@deepaparakkal4241 absolutely incorrect. My partner is training to become a nursery teacher, I however am currently studying theoretical physics and maths and get very heavily invested with my work. Of course, social awkwardness is a side effect, however I still am able to enjoy talking to her about my work even if she doesn’t understand it or care herself.For I personally do not understand her work.I see it as an opportunity to explain it in another light. His toroidal accelerator was not something impossible to explain to her, he just hasn’t learnt how to communicate his ideas.

eh you dont know for sure

@@EpicFableBean we know😂😂

Hmm... it's almost like a football game attracting comments from the fans of the two teams involved.

Sponge bath.

Or just is a story of how one mind can be isolated from the rest for existing in the wrong conditions, you know? No need to be that melodramatic

His character is thinly written, but IQ is not an outdated measure, its just not as important as the Mensa crowd like to think it is.

IQ measures Cognitive Abilities. It's significant.

You can look at it from both sides. IQ tests remain significant today in counselling for giving an insight into a person's thinking abilities but not the full picture. You usually accompany that with thorough interviews, personal history etc. Does it remain the best label to label a person smart? Not really. But it's an easy start.

@@derickndossy IQ measures your ability to take timed tests. I can't think my way out of a paper bag.

If you're both at higher intelligence levels, you can interact on a broader level. Your work doesn't define you. My wife and I find many topics of mutual interest, despite her having studied physics/mathematics/data science, and me electrical engineering.

That was actually a piece of advice my dad gave me in my younger years. Always try to find a partner, who's on your level . Otherwise it won't work. He was so right!

Well I hate to break it to you that's not always accurate, I married a Man who has got a very high IQ well above where I could even dream of having and we have been married 10 years. It's a matter of respect not IQ..

@@queenpinkysfamily1618 most people like to have an intelligent conversation

@@Jane5720 People that smart have lots of others just as smart they talk with, unfortunately some with that level of IQ have no respect for others and treat them inappropriately because they think they can just because they are smarter...

@@koppsr From what I have heard. the army has a guideline that a commander shouldn't be more than 30 points higher IQ than his troops - because he will have real trouble relating to them enough to command them.