Something I find really frustrating reading through and overhearing everyday discussion is the belief that “women are more emotional, men are more logical” and other categorical ideas along those lines. I’ve met plenty of emotional men and plenty of women more logical than me (a man).

Through all my exposure to many different types of people, the only reasonable conclusion I can draw is: people vary.

I’m curious if gifted people follow these categorical and belief-based lines of thought.

My brain has this weird thing where it solves problems or remembers information way faster than my conscious thought process. Like, if I’m trying to figure something out, I’ll start thinking about it normally — but before I can even finish asking myself the question or saying “I don’t know,” my brain has already made 5, 10, sometimes 15 makes incredibly fast rapid unconscious in under a second and just gives me the answer fully formed. It’s not like I sat there and thought it through step-by-step — it just appears in my head, almost like it was stamped there instantly. But I can backtrack the connections afterward if I need to explain how I got there. This happens with problem-solving, memory recall, jokes, comebacks — pretty much anything. Sometimes it makes me seem really witty or random to people because I’ll say something out of nowhere, but in my head I just made a ton of quick connections in the background. I don’t control it, and it feels completely separate from my slower, conscious thinking process. It’s incredibly useful, but I’m wondering — is this common? Do other people experience this or am I "gifted"?

Pretty much the title. What challenges do/did you face? Was the process of nurturing your child different than what it would be for a regular parent? Do you feel close or distant from your children, and do you like the process or hate it? What would you recommend an adult like you, conceive or avoid bearing children?

This might just be me, but for being around since 2009 and covering a topic that applies to millions of people across the world, and seeing how many gifted people feel lonely because of their intelligence and most likely try and seek a place to talk with other gifted peers, 48k members seems small to me. Wikipedia lists Mensa as having around 150k members, meanwhile Reddit is a free, always available hub for everyone online. I couldn't find an free, online gifted community as large as this subreddit, yet it's still quite small to me. Does anyone else feel this way? Why could it be this small, or is it actually not small at all? (I'm new to this sub, so I don't know if something may have happened that affected its member count)

For example, I feel like I am in a room and making conversations with people

I know the room that I am inside and know the people I am interacting with and where each person is sitting, and it feels like I can really see them and

But somehow , even though it feels like I see things in my mind

I cant know any visual informations about the people and the room

For example, I cant know the face of the people or their skin color or the color and design of the walls or ceilings or the shape of the table no matter how hard I try

I get mad that people don't see how our brains are being programmed. & I often question what thoughts are my true thoughts vs the ones that has been placed there. What goals are my actual goals vs what the world tells me I should be accomplishing lol has anyone else ever thought about

How do we know what we actually want ?

I was separated from my mother the first 3 days of my life, but eventually became "gifted", while my parents have average intelligence, as well as my sister, who was not separated after birth.

of course long-term maternal deprivation usually has an adverse effect on intelligence. but one 2001 study on rats showed that taking them away from their mother only for one day after birth (the third day) was enough to change their whole life, seemingly giving them either high or low intelligence – not changing the total average, but severely increasing the variance. (they didn't investigate why this may be, but other studies show that maternal deprivation increases synaptic plasticity in the prefrontal cortex, which is definitely part of the explanation for this phenomenon.)

I couldn't find any more research on a relation between intelligence and short-time maternal deprivation. the only similar case I know is that of the "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski, who was separated from his parents for many weeks at age 6 months, and also came to be exceptionally gifted.

is your personal case (or that of your child) similar to mine? let's collect! (I'm also happy if you reply many years after this post. hello to the future!)

I formerly thought yesterday that my maximum forward span was 8 maximum backwards span was 10 and maximum sequencing span was 8. But then I practiced for several hours using a better chunking strategy and now my Forward Span is 12 (50% of the time 100% of the time for 11) My Backwards Span is 11 (50% of the time 100% at 10) and Sequencing Span is 11 (50% of the time). How rare is this? The WAIS-IV only tests to 9 Forward Span 8 Backward Span and 8 Sequencing Span and getting all of those right is 19 scaled score (1 in 1000)

Digit span test - tools.timodenk.com

I used 2200 MS As my Default Option