Intelligence has always been something I have found interesting, how intelligence manifests itself in different people, hot some perceive themselves to be of the highest order and others who take humility in the fact that they are a tad slow.
After watching a film where the main character takes a pill and it instantly makes himself 300% more intelligent, his ability to see the world changes, it got me thinking, would the world benefit if we all had IQ's in the 200's.
Im not going to beat around the bush here i consider myself intelligent, and I have spent most of my adult life trying to prove this fact to many people, friends, family and former employers. But because I technically don't have any certificates of education I have nothing to back up this claim. Hence why I'm at Uni in my mid twenties writing a blog at 2 am.
I find writing the most frustrating thing in my life, before I write anything I believe I'm going to change the world and realise two paragraphs in, I can't spell a word vital that my inner monologue is screaming, which gets me down ,and often in my texts I miss spell the most obvious words and people react in the same way of laughing with me, "oh thats just dyslexia", but they will instantly shut off and not focus about what the text is about.
I have never taken a formal IQ test, I would love to take one. I have taken many online ones which claim to be formal and have constantly got in the 130's area, which someone told was good, whilst also being shocked that the person who got 130 IQ struggled to spell "yesterday", could have this intelligence.
In fact when I was in college failing my A-levels, I took high level dyslexia tests to see if I was really selectively stupid and not just idle. The results of the test was that it was idleness mixed with dyslexia, but I put the idleness down to being a 17 year old. But one result I found was that my ability of spacely reasoning where i was in the top 2 percentile which felt like a minor victory, because lets be honest what is that good for? tetris?
Since starting Uni I have noticed my intelligence in the area of academia increase tenfold! I have read more literature than I have ever read before, I could give you a detailed breakdown of the role of religion in Iran, I can de-construct and newspaper article into four elements, tell you the confines of the European Union, and even how to get your self elected president. Even with all that evidence people will consider me stupid because I used the wrong affect/effect.
This may not make any sense to you, maybe that is the point I am trying to get across, maybe that in my head I see myself as the most intelligent person, I know I get angry at truly stupid people, but don't we all? Is being intelligent a good thing, it can make you depressed when you know that you should not fell down but you still do. I suppose this is a rant at the tiny problems in my life, I mean in the grand scheme of things is worrying about if people perceive you are an intellectual truly important, I'm sure the people going hungry today don't care.
I don't really know how to finish this it seems to have turned more into a rant than it has a declaration of my intent to change the social order, but lets be honest that was never going to happen. Being Dyslexic is in no way as bad as some social problems people face but still it can effect (no idea if that's the right e/affect) peoples lives. If you have got this far and can still understand me I ask that you take a step back from the screen and listen to your inner monologue and see what ideas you know, think how you could change the world, for the better, we don't want anymore Hilters. Try and remember all the things you have learned over the years and that every piece of knowledge that you have gained is never useless! Now try and think how you would express that information would you write it? Draw it? speak it? Everyone has different ways of expressing their intelligence, I just hope that its soon socially acceptable to doing something other than mundane writing!
P.S I understand that I wrote this and it might be slightly hypocritical.
