So has being "speshul" ever get anyone here ahead?

topic posted Tue, August 4, 2009 - 9:03 AM by  Jenny
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First I will acknowledge that I realize that no one here takes themselves too serious (or I might have avoided joining).

ME: My last test was 170.
This even was after a major head injury in a car accident. I had to be tested during a divorce 3 years ago.
When my IQ was higher and I was a 16 yr old High School grad? after graduating early, took 2 years of engineering courses and just walked away at age 18 to be a contractor. How smart was THAT?
My love life sucked hardcore donkey a$$ with glass & acid cereal breakfast for years
and (quote my family, ">GASP!<") I am now a middle-aged SAHM and finally finishing school out of a hodgepodge of 176 credits.

So even my last clinical score is in 99 percentile and even a less than .2% of the pop that are simply over 130.
But does that percentile kinda tweak your life in other areas, follow like a stray puppy? Like influence the Suck Factors?


Being in a special category- Though the percentiles work a lil higher-

.5% have some ASD (I am borderline Aspergers-means I was trained manifestations of it at an early age)
.5% (to possibly 20) have dyslexia in some degree
.3% have HH (blood disorder)
3-9% are Rh -factor O type
8% of females are left handed
.015% of natural conception past age 40 (common stats for 20s is just 17%.)
6% of families have 3 or more children

2-3% of women using condoms PERFECTLY get pregnant (not gonna put imperfect scores)
2-4% experience failure with injectable/implants contra
solid 9% failure in oral contra
5% of women are taller than 5'8" (US depH&H)
So 90th percentile and over in most categories of "not average"

Ya know what.... maybe there is something to that being average after all >**sound of a thousand cricket violins<


Seriously tho? Has anyone here so far ever really got anything from their 99th percentile status except good grades and a psychotic impatience for idiocy?
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Jenny
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  • Oh my.

    Serious questions on this tribe...live dangerously!

    Normally, I'd say 'fuck, no,' but since you phrased the questions as carefully as you did...

    Socially, no, not really. Nobody gives a fuck from special, and I make a policy of avoiding people who make any such claims for themselves, or who give a rats ass about test scores. They're pathetic assholes.

    But experientially, I've been told that I live more intensely than most people, and that is probably true. Everything is intense: thoughts, ideas, sensations. Just being alive is kind of a carnival for me (the freakshow part, more often than not). Also, I find my own company and my own thoughts invariably entertaining.

    So no, it's never gotten me ahead--probably the opposite, most times. But it makes the where I am pretty good, for hte most part.
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