Don't envy the green too much, chance of late onset mental illnesses seems to increase.
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
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My grandfather privately had major depressive disorder and anxiety, and was a psychiatrist. So valid point.
I realized during covid that most people are quite dumb and I didn't realize that before. But what's actually lacking in people is maturity and kindness.
Too much focus on iq, as if it makes you a better person. It may make you more productive for the corps. Good for them.
It’s unfortunate, but be thankful it took you that long to realize it.
Yeah, "gifted".
Especially since gifted, is based on biased metrics that personally feel like they ignore a lot of other factors.
The comic doesn't say what metric was used to judge intelligence.
There isn't an unbiased metric in existance, not when intelligence is itself so ill-defined and nebulous.
You can't reduce it down to a number or set of numbers without making judgements about what intelligence is and isn't, or what the numbers represent specifically, or without making judgements about how to take the measurements. These judgements cannot be made but through the lens of the culture and individual life experience of judge(s). And when it comes to research on topics like this there is simply no way to truly isolate any measurable quantity out as being inherently caused by biology vs external factors. Humans are messy and hard to sort neatly.
If anything, the comic more-so reflects what happens to kids who grow up getting told they're gifted and praised for being inherently smart rather than for working hard or other such things that they can actually exert any control over, thus producing kids who are terrified of not being as smart as they're told they are or as "successful" as they've been expected to be, who grow up to fret about their failures or perceived failures. Or to kids who have or believe themselves a great deal of potential but cannot realize it for other reasons, be they economic, geopolitical, familial or whatever.
Also lifelong concern with things that the average group doesn't notice, and inability to be entertained by the things that enthrall them.
The worst thing about being gifted is that you can't use "I'm an idiot" as an excuse. There are tons of people out there that hide their mental disorders behind being dumb. You can't do that when they have a test that says you can't do that.
Sure you can. Most people don't know about your test results. Even for those that do, there are plenty of people gifted in some areas and deficient in others.
I was going to upvote this until I thought "oh, you're calling yourself gifted not are you? Reckon this is talking about you?"
This feels like some kind of reverse Dunning Kruger backflip fallacy.
- Dumb people are confident despite their ineptitude.
- I lack all form of confidence.
- Therefore, I am quite smart.