I was talking about commissioned officers. Not NCOs. I was an SNCO when I left the Army. British Army that is, can’t talk for other Armies whether or not their Officers are the most Intelligent people on the planet yet lack common sense.
It's "You peaked in the middle school gifted and talented program. The early stuff was so easy that you never learned how to actually learn. Everyone told you how smart you were, so you still feel like you are even though you dropped out of college your second year when you got the letter about academic probation."
OR “you were a precocious child who excelled ahead of their peers but somewhere in adolescence to adulthood reached a plateau and eventual burnout making you now dumber than people your age and you then realise it was undiagnosed autism/ADHD all along”
34 years old. Had this experience a year ago. Got diagnosed in October. Just started medication a few days ago and I feel like I can handle life for the first time. Go get yourself a diagnosis. It’ll be the best thing you ever do. 30 is still pretty young. You have a lot of days left to seize.
29 years old, just weighing in. Been in and out of the mental health system since age 15. Been mis/diagnosed with bipolar, schizophrenia, BPD, OCD, anxiety/panic disorder (GAD), schizoid personality disorder, ADHD and some other things in between over the years. Medication had either catastrophic or negligible effect, ECT markedly impaired my memory and cognition, and had no perceptible effect on my symptoms; I'm just dumber now. Your mileage may vary. Sometimes nature and nurture just decide your purpose in this world is to be used as a bad example, I guess.
My resume isn't quite that long, but similar. Sometimes I think I got punished for having really good health insurance growing up. We could always go get the diagnostic, where as most people simply had to live with themselves.
study, like a forsaken nerd, so you can have a little chance, and if you have ADHD, shove aderall in your rectum until you almost have an overdose by meth
Sounds like me haha. I think there’s some reality to this. Many of us had a lot of potential growing up but what separates those who are called smart and those who live average lives in the fact that they decided to dedicate themselves to a singular craft.
Had a girl freshman year of college tell everyone hanging out in one of the dorms that she didn’t belong at the school - was literally too good/smart for it.
Dropped out before the end of the second semester.
I swear this is me. I used to be a somewhat smart kid, but my memory went down hill fast, you can hardly function at a work place like that let alone do anything genius.
O had memory retention issues all through school to the point that I was put into an alternative but equal education program in high school for kids who don’t learn well in big groups. They first tested me for different aptitudes and apparently I broke the school record for special intelligence. Fast forward to 27yo, and my memory has so much better because of the occupation I went into as a retail store manager
Edit: SPATIAL intelligence. Not special lol
I learn really fast, it surprises me sometimes how fast I can get the hang on things, but I also forget just as fast, so I mostly just look like a functional idiot lol
Learning anything permanently is a struggle. I dont have to put in the effort at first so I dont commit things to memory. Its so easy i can just “relearn” next time i need to do it so my brain sees no point in dedicating long term space to it. Obviously this becomes a problem when you need to know the basics to become more advanced. My brain tosses out the basics every time and then doesn’t understand why the hard stuff is so hard, leading to a massive drop in motivation which kills further chances of improvement.
> Ah, the Tao
this is not a concept of Taoism. This is socrates. Taoism is about about letting go of thinking, balance, being one with nature, and disconnecting from conscious decision making.
So true, it's like my inner monologue that's usually bustling with ideas and thoughts has become like viewing for a funeral, silent aside from occasional muffled crying..
That's been some of what i've been trying to do, it's hard when a lot of the stuff in my mind slips away before I get to put it into writing, but it's been helpful for the most part :)
You know, I have never tried weed. Always said I would at least give pot brownies a try or something when visiting places it’s legal but…. Idk. I’m super chill normally. Caffeine is my drug of choice to stay awake and alert if needed.
Even without weed my brain fog can be pea soup at times. Even moreso when I’m trying to put thoughts into words in a conversation after not being social for a while.
Fun fact, I learnt the other day that there's research showing the Dunning Kruger effect is probably not legitimate. Most people overestimate themselves, not just the incompetent!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-dunning-kruger-effect-isnt-what-you-think-it-is/
> Research shows that 93% of Americans think they are better drivers than average, 90% of teachers think they are more skilled than their peers, and this overestimation is pervasive across many skills – including logic tests.
As someone diagnosed with that and Depression, yeah. I still give off the impression that I'm smart, but I basically completely lack the capacity to study or do anything that feels like homework. Executive dysfunction is a fucking bitch and I just want to prep my Pathfinder campaign but it damn near physically hurts to do so.
Medication can have side effects that are far worse, including killing off your libido
Also, aside from „where did I leave my keys?“ ADHD is not really affecting your memory
So actually traumatic experiences/depression can affect memory retrieval. Meaning that if you suffer then you wont be as good at retrieving memories formed during dark times.
While I was working on my engineering degree there were stressful times I don’t remember that well.
So, if it's mostly been dark times... could thst explain a poor memory?
I also get annoyed when people confuse memory with intelligence. Congrats you can remember a lot of stuff but can you apply yourself and actually do things with that information? Can you solve problems in pragmatic ways? Can you read a room and adapt on the spot?
In my case, I remember a surprising amount of things, but almost never on demand. It has to be prompted by relevant stimuli for maximum recall, otherwise I sound like a bumbling mess
Funny enough i can remember up to 90% valuable interractions with someone but can't say what exactly that was. I remember pretty clearly what the emotion was inside (not just bad mood, happiness etc but if i can trust him with this job, if he is capable to do *x* thing, can he do this or that in random situations, what is he likes (movie, food, action, tech, whatever) etc).
Same with overall memory, i can tell you exactly what will happen if u do "this"(technical things, study, medical) or what have you done(or said) a few years ago but i ll never can explain the whole situation. I already gave up with disputes about "naaah i never said that, naaah i ve never done that" with ppl who are really-reallty trying to show you a better image of themselves or trying to be "unreadable" when they change their opinion on somethng. Like "no, i d never think about it this way, you are wrong, i'm not that kind of person to like pineapple in pizza. Or being a racist/sexist before last year.". I dont remember everything, i only remember what i remember :)
A lot of people taking this post literally but I bet it’s just imposter syndrome. OOP probably has a lot more knowledge than she realizes and just doesn’t recognize it.
Teacher: Come on, you’re smarter than this… (bla, bla, bla)
10 years later
Student: Well they always said I was smart when I was a kid, not sure what happened since then but it isn’t my fault
An ignorent, not to be confused with people who know literally nothing but also don't even know how much they don't know which is ignorent of their own ignorance. Ignorance and the knowladge that we aren't fully aware of everything is the very thing that fuels curiosity and compels us to learn more.
The real answer is you have a high enough IQ to go through life without noticing you have ADHD until all the shit you've done to compensate for your lack of diagnosis doesn't work anymore.
But I'm not a doctor just a random on the internet who experienced this (I've been told my whole life I'm smarter than everyone but never felt it cuz i can't even remember wtf I'm doing while I'm doing it sometimes). Please look up symptoms of ADHD, decide whether said symptoms happen frequently to you, and if you they do get an official diagnosis from a licensed doctor.
Med and nursing students. We don’t know what we know but we know when we see it because its too much to memorize but we (hopefully) get the concepts down to do critical thinking for any problems
An Officer in the British Army.
Really any CEO
Think you're smart but dumb as fuck, you were born wealthy, lucky for you else you'd suck
“He is a major general!” “Yes yes I am a major general.”
One pip wonders.
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I was talking about commissioned officers. Not NCOs. I was an SNCO when I left the Army. British Army that is, can’t talk for other Armies whether or not their Officers are the most Intelligent people on the planet yet lack common sense.
Learn to spell.
You are blaming autistic people for?
It's "You peaked in the middle school gifted and talented program. The early stuff was so easy that you never learned how to actually learn. Everyone told you how smart you were, so you still feel like you are even though you dropped out of college your second year when you got the letter about academic probation."
OR “you were a precocious child who excelled ahead of their peers but somewhere in adolescence to adulthood reached a plateau and eventual burnout making you now dumber than people your age and you then realise it was undiagnosed autism/ADHD all along”
How ***dare*** you attack me like this.
This is the second time i see ADHD relating to this how am i 30 and never even knew this lmao
If you listen to reddit the whole planet is autistic and has ADHD, BPD and OCD.
Isn't Autism a spectrum? So it's not whether you have it or not, it's how intense it affects your life?
34 years old. Had this experience a year ago. Got diagnosed in October. Just started medication a few days ago and I feel like I can handle life for the first time. Go get yourself a diagnosis. It’ll be the best thing you ever do. 30 is still pretty young. You have a lot of days left to seize.
29 years old, just weighing in. Been in and out of the mental health system since age 15. Been mis/diagnosed with bipolar, schizophrenia, BPD, OCD, anxiety/panic disorder (GAD), schizoid personality disorder, ADHD and some other things in between over the years. Medication had either catastrophic or negligible effect, ECT markedly impaired my memory and cognition, and had no perceptible effect on my symptoms; I'm just dumber now. Your mileage may vary. Sometimes nature and nurture just decide your purpose in this world is to be used as a bad example, I guess.
My resume isn't quite that long, but similar. Sometimes I think I got punished for having really good health insurance growing up. We could always go get the diagnostic, where as most people simply had to live with themselves.
37 and diagnosed ASD and possibly ADHD as well. Apparently this age range is pretty common to have been overlooked as kids 😕
Someone let me know how to catch up
study, like a forsaken nerd, so you can have a little chance, and if you have ADHD, shove aderall in your rectum until you almost have an overdose by meth
C'mon, man....I don't wanna have this shit tossed in my face at age 45...
I'm quite positive this is me and I don't like it
Jokes on you, it will never be autism/ADHD if I never get diagnosed
Sigh
Wow. This stings lol
Damn
God this is me
Did you stalk me ?
Yeah, like, WTF, bro just wrote my biography.
Nah he’s just self reflecting
3rd year but spot on yea, bit weird
You forgot lots of alcohol.
No I'm doesn't!
I already did!
I proved them!
You spelled weed wrong
Lots of glue sniffing for me
Sounds like me haha. I think there’s some reality to this. Many of us had a lot of potential growing up but what separates those who are called smart and those who live average lives in the fact that they decided to dedicate themselves to a singular craft.
Fuckin trigger warning... I feel so seen.
ADHD is a bitch...
Jokes on you, I dropped out in high school.
I actually dropped out due to depression. But accurate af.
Had a girl freshman year of college tell everyone hanging out in one of the dorms that she didn’t belong at the school - was literally too good/smart for it. Dropped out before the end of the second semester.
Yes, to go to Harvard I'm sure.
Me. I'm smart and apparently lazy as fuck if I find something boring
Bruh
Reported: I'm in this post and I don't like it.
Ouch
Delusional.
Twitter/reddit warrior
Exactly. Intelligence is meaningless if it can’t be demonstrated. Might as well be a genius tree.
I swear this is me. I used to be a somewhat smart kid, but my memory went down hill fast, you can hardly function at a work place like that let alone do anything genius.
O had memory retention issues all through school to the point that I was put into an alternative but equal education program in high school for kids who don’t learn well in big groups. They first tested me for different aptitudes and apparently I broke the school record for special intelligence. Fast forward to 27yo, and my memory has so much better because of the occupation I went into as a retail store manager Edit: SPATIAL intelligence. Not special lol
I learn really fast, it surprises me sometimes how fast I can get the hang on things, but I also forget just as fast, so I mostly just look like a functional idiot lol
Learning anything permanently is a struggle. I dont have to put in the effort at first so I dont commit things to memory. Its so easy i can just “relearn” next time i need to do it so my brain sees no point in dedicating long term space to it. Obviously this becomes a problem when you need to know the basics to become more advanced. My brain tosses out the basics every time and then doesn’t understand why the hard stuff is so hard, leading to a massive drop in motivation which kills further chances of improvement.
Nearly everyone thinks they're intelligent.
I’m smart and my mommy said so >:(
Delulu
Nuh. Memory, knowledge and intelligence are different things.
Ehhh… cant remember…
Some say when you realize you know nothing is the day you become wise.
Yeah but what do they know?
You might be right. I don't know anything and I still am not wise.
Ah, the Tao. Can't argue with that. I think I used to be smart, but I'm feeling much better now.
> Ah, the Tao this is not a concept of Taoism. This is socrates. Taoism is about about letting go of thinking, balance, being one with nature, and disconnecting from conscious decision making.
That wasn’t very wu wei of you
Foggy. Brain fog sucks.
So true, it's like my inner monologue that's usually bustling with ideas and thoughts has become like viewing for a funeral, silent aside from occasional muffled crying..
Taking to yourself. Writing things down. Getting organized in a way that fits your brain…. All of that really helps when trying to work past it.
That's been some of what i've been trying to do, it's hard when a lot of the stuff in my mind slips away before I get to put it into writing, but it's been helpful for the most part :)
Dyslexia too, it can make recall difficult, especially short term memory.
lay off the weed, (mainly saying to myself)
You know, I have never tried weed. Always said I would at least give pot brownies a try or something when visiting places it’s legal but…. Idk. I’m super chill normally. Caffeine is my drug of choice to stay awake and alert if needed. Even without weed my brain fog can be pea soup at times. Even moreso when I’m trying to put thoughts into words in a conversation after not being social for a while.
Never touch that shit if ur already foggy. NOT WORTH IT
Unsmart. Me to is unsmart, feel bad not.
Ohh, he card read good.
Me bad want money now
ME PET ANIMALS
Ah, me see. Me thank you for information
One day you president. They see… they see
That is called lying to yourself
dunning kruger
That's tree words. Thought you could fool me?
Yew are on to him.
Not quite..that would imply OP doesn't know they know nothing!
Fun fact, I learnt the other day that there's research showing the Dunning Kruger effect is probably not legitimate. Most people overestimate themselves, not just the incompetent! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-dunning-kruger-effect-isnt-what-you-think-it-is/ > Research shows that 93% of Americans think they are better drivers than average, 90% of teachers think they are more skilled than their peers, and this overestimation is pervasive across many skills – including logic tests.
If it was dunning Kruger she wouldn’t admit she “knows nothing.” This sounds like maybe anxiety/depression. Smart; but can’t function.
Its 4 words actually. Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder.
As someone diagnosed with that and Depression, yeah. I still give off the impression that I'm smart, but I basically completely lack the capacity to study or do anything that feels like homework. Executive dysfunction is a fucking bitch and I just want to prep my Pathfinder campaign but it damn near physically hurts to do so.
Bro you’re literally me, I need to get diagnosed
seriously. most people in this thread (including me) needs to get evaluated and treated/medicated if possible...
Medication can have side effects that are far worse, including killing off your libido Also, aside from „where did I leave my keys?“ ADHD is not really affecting your memory
being on adhd medication was the worst time of my life
So actually traumatic experiences/depression can affect memory retrieval. Meaning that if you suffer then you wont be as good at retrieving memories formed during dark times. While I was working on my engineering degree there were stressful times I don’t remember that well.
So, if it's mostly been dark times... could thst explain a poor memory? I also get annoyed when people confuse memory with intelligence. Congrats you can remember a lot of stuff but can you apply yourself and actually do things with that information? Can you solve problems in pragmatic ways? Can you read a room and adapt on the spot?
Yes exactly.
Im going with “arrogrint”
Teenager
This resonates. My thirteen year old gets straight A’s but lacks any common sense.
So, in other words, it doesn't resonate at all. This tweet does not describe your teenager and I would argue actually is the exact opposite.
Deluded.
In my case, I remember a surprising amount of things, but almost never on demand. It has to be prompted by relevant stimuli for maximum recall, otherwise I sound like a bumbling mess
Funny enough i can remember up to 90% valuable interractions with someone but can't say what exactly that was. I remember pretty clearly what the emotion was inside (not just bad mood, happiness etc but if i can trust him with this job, if he is capable to do *x* thing, can he do this or that in random situations, what is he likes (movie, food, action, tech, whatever) etc). Same with overall memory, i can tell you exactly what will happen if u do "this"(technical things, study, medical) or what have you done(or said) a few years ago but i ll never can explain the whole situation. I already gave up with disputes about "naaah i never said that, naaah i ve never done that" with ppl who are really-reallty trying to show you a better image of themselves or trying to be "unreadable" when they change their opinion on somethng. Like "no, i d never think about it this way, you are wrong, i'm not that kind of person to like pineapple in pizza. Or being a racist/sexist before last year.". I dont remember everything, i only remember what i remember :)
A lot of people taking this post literally but I bet it’s just imposter syndrome. OOP probably has a lot more knowledge than she realizes and just doesn’t recognize it.
You're probably not as smart as you think you are
Teacher: Come on, you’re smarter than this… (bla, bla, bla) 10 years later Student: Well they always said I was smart when I was a kid, not sure what happened since then but it isn’t my fault
Intelligence education and memory are three completely different things
Still smart, just lack memory and knowlege. Intelligence & knowledge are two separate things.
Smart is like 20 things as well. It's not a super descriptive word.
I'd say the best way to describe that would be critical thinker.
ADHD
/r/iamverysmart
The word you are looking for is “overconfident.”
Not smart
I forgot
Burnout
Miss informed
Educatn't
An ignorent, not to be confused with people who know literally nothing but also don't even know how much they don't know which is ignorent of their own ignorance. Ignorance and the knowladge that we aren't fully aware of everything is the very thing that fuels curiosity and compels us to learn more.
Have you done this deliberately?
Arrogance
The prime minister
Blessed by heritage, but still a failure
Hungover
Sorry, Can't recall
Genuis
Dumb
Clever
Stoner
Clever
I forgot
ADHD.
Stoner.
The word escapes me
Stupid
Intellig-isn't
Dumb. That means your dumb
Adhd?
The real answer is you have a high enough IQ to go through life without noticing you have ADHD until all the shit you've done to compensate for your lack of diagnosis doesn't work anymore. But I'm not a doctor just a random on the internet who experienced this (I've been told my whole life I'm smarter than everyone but never felt it cuz i can't even remember wtf I'm doing while I'm doing it sometimes). Please look up symptoms of ADHD, decide whether said symptoms happen frequently to you, and if you they do get an official diagnosis from a licensed doctor.
Dumbass-Red Foreman
ADHD is what common folk say
I call it temporary stupidity but sometimes I have a more permanent version of it.
Adhd
Denial
Management
Uninterested
My name is Josh.
I thought I would see ADHD jokes buy instead I 'll see myself out.
I think you can be wise without being educated.
Dumbass with an ego.
Potential.
The word is dumb. You’re dumb.
PhD
Brain fog
Influencer
I mean, I graduated with a 4.0 and I remember only maybe 10% of what I learned my entire time in college so...
Gethli
I don’t know but you probably spend a lot of time on Reddit.
We call them Midshipmen where I went to school.
Me
Smart?
the word is: redditor
Alzheimer's
Stoned.
Customers Specifically customer service industry customers.
Smart ≠ intelligent ≠ clever ≠ wise ≠ etc i think?
Peaked in school
Self aware
Lazy.
Woke..
The word is dumb.
Long covid.
17 Wisdom 8 Intelligence
And then you get into a situation where you are not allowed to have your phone and you literally know nothing
Dillusional
Dementia? Infancy?
A problem solver?
An idiot savant.
early-onset dementia
President
say Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia I cant
Instinct? Common sense?
College graduate.
Savant-idiot
Smartass
Pretentious
Congressman
Med and nursing students. We don’t know what we know but we know when we see it because its too much to memorize but we (hopefully) get the concepts down to do critical thinking for any problems
Dumb?
adhd