I've been told that I speak English as if it was my second language... by an ESL teacher! I think my brain came with the Norse presets.
I dunno about being genius though, I mean I tested as having an I.Q of 127, but that was before I was diagnosed as dyslexic (although technically it's dysgraphia, as this before it was differentiated.) I certainly don't think of myself as being one. Pretty sure I lost a few points after COVID as well... Maybe genius-lite perhaps? Either way, it's not useful descriptor.
What I am is eternally curious, and I've picked up a rag-bag of tag-ends of knowledge on a whole host of topics, and occasionally that'll make connections that aren't obvious.
Which, come to think of it, is perhaps what genius is about. Not a capacity for knowledge, but a function of the ability to make connections, an inventiveness or flexibility of the mind, to be creative... an unmeasured Y or Z axis on the I.Q scale basically.
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Date: 2024-03-10 01:18 pm (UTC)I've been told that I speak English as if it was my second language... by an ESL teacher! I think my brain came with the Norse presets.
I dunno about being genius though, I mean I tested as having an I.Q of 127, but that was before I was diagnosed as dyslexic (although technically it's dysgraphia, as this before it was differentiated.) I certainly don't think of myself as being one. Pretty sure I lost a few points after COVID as well... Maybe genius-lite perhaps? Either way, it's not useful descriptor.
What I am is eternally curious, and I've picked up a rag-bag of tag-ends of knowledge on a whole host of topics, and occasionally that'll make connections that aren't obvious.
Which, come to think of it, is perhaps what genius is about. Not a capacity for knowledge, but a function of the ability to make connections, an inventiveness or flexibility of the mind, to be creative... an unmeasured Y or Z axis on the I.Q scale basically.