Re: Speaking of tests..

From: The Brown Family (r.c.brown_at_cox.net)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 07:36:13 -0700

Gee I must be Mensa material.

I can transcribe, watch TV and talk on the phone all at the same time.

Personally I think you are making broad generalizations. The absolute
smartest people I know are not that great of communicators, mostly because I
figured out his brain is about three steps ahead of where his mouth is.

Also my two older daughters were identified gifted (oldest at age 3) and
they were cheerleaders and had very normal social lives. In fact MD has
been an MT since age 17 (she's 23 now).

My youngest daughter who is not identified gifted is so shy to the point of
having social anxiety disorder.

I'm different too, we are all different. But there is a difference between
being smart and having to notify everyone. I'm the youngest of five kids
too 12 years apart and we never got to watch TV because my parents were
teachers and way ahead of their time ( or maybe they were just mean, I'm not
sure). And what do you mean one cannot argue values, have you been
watching the convention coverage at all?

Cheryl B.
(had too much coffee this morning)

"Joi" <thedqsgeek@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:5f3a2c28.0407290338.634784e8@posting.google.com...
> > I can't even fathom having a conversation in which I would have to wait
for
> > anyone to catch up. I easily fall into the Mensa range, and I would
find any
> > conversation that could not be "kept up with" by most folks not only
> > pretentious but completely boring.
>
> You just don't get it. This has obviously never happened to you.
>
> I think one of the chief factors involved in intelligence, however you
> care to define it, is a quickness of thinking. It may be simply
> biological -- some people's neurons fire faster, signals leap across
> those synapses faster.
>
> I think I mentioned once being the youngest in a family of 5 very
> bright kids, with about 17 years' difference among us. When we'd sit
> around the table, the conversations would fly fast and furious, about
> 9 or 10 different ones, with different sets of people contributing to
> each.
>
> Well, that's what being with a group of Mensans feels like to me.
> It's homey to be around people so bursting with ideas, so quick to
> express themselves and in such precise language, 'ya know, and with
> such an extensive fund of knowledge upon which to draw to illustrate
> and support their points.
>
> Of course not all Mensans are like that. My husband is one of the
> more slower-speaking Mensans, but when he does speak, one certainly
> wants to listen. He is one of those people at whom I can only stare
> in awe: he can see the world mathematically; that's mind-blowing to a
> analytical/verbal person like me.
>
> I'll tell you what the mundane world is like for me (and boy this
> ruins any idea that I might back down on this topic, doesn't it). And
> if you don't like me for it, so what? Thanks Ms. F. for your post.
> As always, you give me the courage to be unrepentently myself.
>
> Anyway, once I had to be in a hospital. A nurse came in w/a
> clipboard. She had to fill out a social assessment. I was nervous
> about my upcoming procedure and really wanted to talk, but her job
> required her to get that assessment filled out. After we went through
> a few agonizing iterations of her asking me questions, me answering
> and then waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting,
> and waiting while she wrote the answers down, I finally just said,
> "Look, would it be okay w/you if I wrote down the answers to the
> assessment while you talked to be a little about my procedure?" Happy
> smiles all around. I wrote with one bit of my brain while I chatted
> w/her, got the information I needed, and felt much better about what I
> was about to go through.
>
> That's what mundane life is like for me. I adore my son's friends'
> moms; with some I'll even be friends. But unless I find a rare one
> like DH and I, I'll never have a close friendship with any of them.
> What I love most about DH and some others in my life is how much we
> enjoy talking and amusing each other. DH and I sit here working
> together, occasionally reading silly dictation or bits from the Web,
> always punning or speaking in double entendre. As I said to him just
> this night, "One of the things I love about you is that your humor is
> accessible on so many levels." Yup, that's the way we talk to each
> other.
>
> But let me reiterate. I'm different. Different doesn't mean worse or
> better. All it means is different. Please also remember, one cannot
> argue values.
>
> She Who Must Not Be Named

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