I went through college without it. I struggled so hard, tried so hard, I was so lucky to graduate with a shit gpa. Come home, see a doc, worked over time to get a medicine and dosage that worked, and it's like night and day. I feel like my brain works now.
Same here. When I was in the 4th grade, I was given an IQ test. I wasn't told (or I probably just wasn't paying attention) my score, but all I know is that I got placed in a lot of advanced classes with one other kid in my grade. It was just the two of us sitting alone in a classroom learning algebra and such. I couldn't pay attention, and my teachers were really surprised.
I realized that my high IQ was my only saving grace to get me to graduate high school/college. I was a great test taker (using deductive reasoning more than what I learned) , and that was what got me through with a 3.0 in college. Too bad a higher IQ really just means you're good at taking tests.
What are you basing this on? It makes some sense, especially openness.
I do know creativity isn't correlated with schizophrenia but is with bipolar disorder(hypomania) and schizotypal personality disorder.
This could also partially explain the over-representation of people with bipolar disorder(the hypomanic kind) in certain positions like writers(books, movies etc.) and art!
I couldn't find the paper I was specifically looking for, but it's easy to find papers demonstrating that attention and intelligence work apart from one other at bare minimum.
If I recall there are over a dozen genes that control for DA receptor polymorphisms behind ADHD, so intuitively one would think that it's possible to leave certain aspects of working memory untouched by the disorder. When you can't filter out information in the surrounding environment, if you have ADHD you're trying to integrate that into your working memory all of the time, this probably leads to more widespread connectivity, entropy, and strong semantic connections. There's also a fair amount of comorbidity with disorders like bipolar, so it would be hard to tease out correlation from causation.
Mmm I have both, but I'm not terribly creative (well unless it is some weird plan, mentally creative, not physically) and I'm a happy conservative, who is happy to talk to everyone from every political spectrum.
I am definitely not disparaging the IQ test, I'm just saying that coupled with my ADHD, it didn't really help me out in school as far as learning goes.
I think of it as the parenting paradigm I recently read about where if you tell your child "you did really well on your test because you are smarter than most" can cause a child not to study because they think they are already ahead of the curve. If you tell your child "you did really well on your test because you really studied and tried hard", then they will see the correlation behind hard work and achievement. I was definitely the first of the two and never tried hard at anything until after college.
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u/PolyamorousPlatypus May 30 '17
Adderall was my only savior.