AIBU to find it incredibly frustrating that there are basically no resources in the UK for people like me?

Yep 🤣🤣

You see if the OP was effectively trying to work out how her brain works she would know about recent ADHD research which strongly supports the hypothesis (that ADHDers already know is true), that people with ADHD are physically quicker at spotting patterns in fuzzy data than people without ADHD.

Do you need a laughing emoji on that post?

I call it picking holes, but what I actually do for work is review and improve processes, test proposals, find issues before we launch something, look for gaps and ways to bridge them, analyse data (patterns, love them), review and improve documents, write papers proposing new or improved things (and then see them get holes picked in them 🤣) and so on.

I don't think I'm ND either, more just logical and good at detail. I find it really useful but also appreciate it's not the only thing I am. And that I'm not the only person who can do things.

Putting hinges together is really interesting too, I wish I could do that.

I have absolutely no idea why you find the working of your particular brain so fascinating. What realistically do you want and think you can gain from such introspection?

Only she doesn't have to pay at all. I'm getting fed physical and behavioural psychological amd neurological research abstracts down to molecular level on a daily basis. If I went looking I could find even more.

I understand the latest research about my ADHD, my husband's ASD and when we got sick I researched my husband's epilepsy, my own rheumatoid arthritis and vasculitis. I've put myself in remission with a non-prescription drug combination that I've been able to show my doctors the clinical research to show how each drug works, that they are unaware of.

It's all online if you're curious enough and intelligent enough to understand what you're reading and follow the right leads. The Web is an absolute treasure trove for people like the OP and me and there are so many of us!

That's really interesting @IpsyUpsyDaisyDoos

I'm not ND in any way (apart from the internet making me ADHD ) and I've always been academically talented. My talent is bringing things together, seeing connections and combinations, rather than "picking holes." I like seeing how things fit together, which is wjat I do in my work/vocation (humanities professor).

And I'm resolutely average to below-average in pub quizzes.

How very dare you!

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I'll bet you're a bloody sight more fun to be with than most people with an IQ of 150.

It's getting the balance I think.

You can be incredibly smart or excel in some way but if you can't apply it to something useful for your own life, it feels like it's useless.

Mine comes out when we watch quiz shows or at work when someone's explaining a process that needs reviewing or a new function and I can immediately see flaws or places to improve it or downstream impacts.

The quiz show thing isn't much use in the grand scheme of my life but the ability to essentially "pick holes" has been good for my career. Once I learned how to do it in a positive way anyway.

Don't forget the reg. plate of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - GEN 11 after the two Potts inventors!

Having a high IQ doesn't necessarily equate to a genius in my view. I was a very low achiever and was viewed almost as a delinquent by some teachers. I only did the Mensa test to prove to myself that I wasn't stupid, and nobody has ever been impressed by it. I've still never amounted to anything, have done nothing I or anyone else would class as brilliant, and consider myself a complete waster. We're not all full of ourselves!

The nhs is not going to pay for someone’s curiosity. If you want to explore your personal psychology then you need to pay privately, I’m sure there is someone out there. No country’s healthcare pays for this sort of thing,

Seems genius comes from the latin (look, I'm just looking this stuff up), and latin words ending in -us would normally pluralise to -i, so it seems that has validity.

I'll stop derailing here.

OP studied linguistics 😀

Ooh, interesting call. Seems geniuses is more common but genii is an acceptable alternative. However, there is one person who should be able to tell us, isn't there...

I may have to relegate myself to merely ubersmart.

The only way I've seen 'genii' used is in the Brontë siblings' juvenilia - there's a whole mythology they create around The Genii.

There's a lovely children's book, where a young boy finds one of the toy soldiers that the Brontë children owned, and the soldier comes to life etc etc etc.

I thought that was the plural of genie rather than genius.

One of us is less smart than we thought...

Soz, my bad.

Hyper special, please.

You had better get someone to explain how your brain works then as you are so super special.

genii...God I am just so smart.

Only one claiming to be a genius. The rest of us are just acknowledging that we have a particular type of intelligence and have cracked on with the rest of our lives.

Maybe that makes us the true geniuses..geniusi? 🤔

Oh, I know @RampantIvy although none of us is as geniusistic as the OP. I've never been a member of MENSA though, nor am I ND - just very boringly a clever grafter. I'm small fry in comparison to the OP.

I think the OP should read Helen Lewis' Genius. Lewis outlines the conditions for the kind of Nobel prize winning that maybe the OP thinks she wants. It's not all down to IQ or MENSA membership, you'll be shocked to hear!

Gosh, so many genuises on this thread.

This! I have an iq of 126 which is inferior to so many of the people on this thread, and means Mensa wouldn't piss on me if I was on fire 🤣 but I'm autistic and my joy is learning!