Mine’s either 134 or 143. Never cared much about it tbh. The Mensa ppl I’ve known tended to have major personality and/or social flaws but I suspect their pride in their numbers says less about IQ in general and more about somebody who pins their pride on something that has nothing at all to do with them.
“Hey, I’m a guy”. Good for me. “Hey, my IQ is #”. Lovely. What do you do with it? That’s what I care about.
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I got tested as a kid twice. Boring. Another time, I was supposed to go into a “talented and gifted” thing. 10 years old, 5th grade.
Sat all by myself in a classroom with a single teacher up front. 3/4 of the way through the test, I walked up to the front.
“You’re early”.
“No, I’m not done yet. I just want to know: Do I *have* to take this test?”
“You want to be in T&G right?”
“Do I have to take the test?”
“Just think of the benefits of [yada yada yada]”
“Do I have to take this test?”
“Why don’t you just finish it? You’re almost done you know.”
“I know I’m almost done. Do I have to take the test?”
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“No”.
I handed in the paper and went back to class.
Never entered the program. My 11 yr old ne on the other hand, *is* in the gifted program and he’s happy with it. He’s gamifying grades, has his next few years of classes figured out. Loving it. I encourage him to whatever direction he wants.
But I never regretted walking out that day or other times I walked out of opportunities. I don’t like to be lied to and need my stance respected. I never liked that ‘feeling’ I’d get when I was being railroaded in a direction I didn’t consent to.
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I was lucky in that I had instilled in me at a young age, “It’s all bullshit”. So I took tests, did ok, but my self-esteem didn’t rest on the results of the tests or grades or anything like that. I’m grateful to whomever brought those messages to me because it has to be awful for one’s self-worth to hinge on a test.
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They’re boring. Starts off easy and gets harder until they get annoying. If you remember they’re made up by sadistic people who like to successively torture people and then give them a number, it makes it easier to take stuff like that.
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My ne’s probably going to do a direction similar to yours but different reasons. He’s been gamifying school. He checks his grades nightly online and tries to get them up. He’s satisfied with A’s and B’s not looking for perfection.
They had a “life direction” meeting last week and laid out a possible plan for him to end up with an Associate’s degree by 18. [early college]. He likes the idea. Will he like it next year? The year after? Who knows.
I’ll support him either way. Everybody’s gotta make their own road. If he likes the road they laid out, then that’s great. If not, that’s great too.
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He figured that out himself 
🙂 He likes the idea of “getting it over with”. He’s in mostly advanced classes now with older kids already. His friends are making sex jokes some of them he doesn’t understand yet but he’s starting to.
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He does. Two of his friends aren’t in gifted classes. One of them is downright stupid but funny. His “crew” is about six kids. The school is always worried that they’re a gang and they’ve been called into the office a few times but they’re not. Just a club.
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