>>13778119Any other /lowIQs/, here?
I'm a 94 IQ, actually. I'm roommates with a 150+ IQ, former gifted student who went to a magnet school and is a physicist. Honestly, I thought he'd be more blindingly intelligent but he's just quicker on the uptake when it comes to being introduced to things at the same time, and is admittedly very, very witty.
As a result, he wins most of the time when we play new games against each other. Surprisingly, he feels the need to signal his true abilities when drunk, but that's not much a sin honestly. I don't know why he does it, but I believe he feels obligated to because it's the only quality of his that he sees as valuable, even though he has so much more going for him, like his tenacity or his honor. It's a shame, because I put little weight into this world's fetishization of perceived intelligence, (especially when the person in question has accomplished very little, and have very little practical skills to speak of) but I can understand the reasoning. It's the closest metric we have to predicting success. I value silent but not resigned demeanors and minds, and I believe people have more agency than they think. In some ways, I enjoy having others, mostly the ones that I find unsavory or don't care much about, place me in an imaginary hierarchy of theirs. It ironically gives me an advantage.
t. PLC engineer, studied EE and have a master's in control theory
currently self-studying more math
