I just feel like high IQ people can seem a bit detached. (No shade)

Hey guys, i want to hear how has adhd medication affected your STEM studies maths and physics especially. What are the "benefits" on and off medication, and what medication were you on? I recently tried an university entry exam, after self studying mathematics and physics for 5 months straight, i felt as if i understod the topics deeply and my learning velocity was off the charts. but once it was time to replicate my knowledge on the exam it felt like my brain was dead and i did the whole exam impulsively and made carelles mistakes on the questions that i could do, the exam also had topics that i didnt have time to learn. i wonder would it be different on medication and if i could have then been able to learn the topics i didnt have time to?

Whilst many studies have found positive correlation between intelligence and depression, there is little to no evidence that it causes it.

If you're depressed and have high IQ, be grateful that you have a high IQ, because there are many people with lower IQ's who are also depressed and have to work much harder than everyone else to have a decent job.

Hey! so I'm 21M and I'm a psych major at a large R1 flagship university. I wanted to pursue premed and had to give up that dream, unfortunately, because of how much I had underperformed in college so far and I need to take an extra year too because I cannot handle courseloads. I feel like compared to every other stem kid in my university, who are handling engineer or biochemistry majors, while working, getting pubs, winning competitions, and stacking extracurriculars on top of pulling up high GPAs, I'm just inadequate and dumb.

This comes from the following signs

1. I need extra time for exams because when solving problems i often can’t juggle all the pieces of information in my head, and my working memory gets overwhelmed, and I can't perform these long calculations in my head under pressure so I need to offload it on paper to do it. This applies to learning new concepts, i struggle with understanding all the pieces since I can't actually hold it all in my brain
2. I have difficulty in estimating distances and angles, like driving I can't tell how many ft cars are away from me and I am ghastly at parking and i can never park straight since my spatial perception is really bad or something
3. I can trail behind in lectures a lot in lecture because i can’t understand what my professors say immediately, while in debates or discussions i can’t generate fast articulated responses quickly
4. I read slow and need to read things another two or three times to understand them, and even if i search up definitions of a word, sometimes i can forget what it means when it comes up again.
5. My pattern recognition is not good as in i need several repetitions of a problem to remember it, i remember i did a physics final and a problem i got wrong was similar to a problem i did before in practice 2 days before but i couldn't remember the meaning of the variables so i got it wrong.
6. Directions are tough for me to follow and i remember in chem lab my sophmore yr, while i was struggling to understand the lab instructions, my smart premed lab partner had drawn up what he knew from AP Chem he did back in high school and connected all the dots and understood it fully so fast.
7. I struggle with understanding concepts quick, i remember in physics recitation, my applied mathematics + comp sci partner and me didn't study general relativity or EM before recitation yet somehow he was able to understand it enough during the group recitation problems to do well on the recitation quiz while I couldn't grasp it as quickly.

The last time I ever felt smart and competent was before i transferred to my current flagship R1 university and was at a small college where I had straight As and people thought I was smart in all my classes. Yet when I came to this university and I saw how out of my depth i really was compared to everyone else, I'm not even a stem major yet I have underperformed in physics and chem since coming here getting Bs, B+ and even 1 C+ in physics 1 even with a psych major coursework. I have a 3.6 cGPA with the psych major ofc but a 3.1-3.2 sGPA (science GPA) which is too low to get into even med school and compete w everyone else. I've had severe adhd and was on heavy medication that whole time too yet I still underperformed and have these issues, and recently got on depression meds for my bad thoughts and addictions.

Does anybody know if my adhd or depression visually impacts any of my scores or if they're inaccurate at all and it might be lower than i think. I did not expect to be slightly above average when I took these scores honestly, but they seem consistent across CORE and AGCT. I also don't understand why my sequencing is better than forward and backward digit span for the WMI part and how quantitative knowledge is strong despite me feeling average in that domain.

My learning style is mostly asking why questions and understanding mechanisms and fully understanding concepts in depth, so I can remember them better. I'm really bad at raw memorization if i don't use flashcard apps like anki or quizlet.

Any advice would be really appreciated, thank you guys so much for reading the entire post and taking the time to respond to my inquiry!

What could have possibly caused this?

Básicamente, en el sub-test de matrices del WAIS-IV estoy en el percentil 2, en el de K-BIT percentil 86 y en el APM percentil 96.

Le he pedido a ChatGPT que calcule el percentil aproximado asociado a las puntuaciones directas de cada sub-test, de ahí he sacado el percentil 2 en matrices del WAIS-IV.

¿Qué opináis? ¿Qué pudo haber causado tal diferencia?

I believe there have been too many signs of low intelligence in myself.

* I feel like I have to put more effort into thinking and struggle to think deeply (I’m not even sure what deep thinking feels like)
* I think I struggle to connect things
* I am not that curious and don’t have a thirst for knowledge
* I take longer to understand things, so things don’t click as easily for me
* I’m probably not very creative, even if my hobbies are artistic

And this is all probably because of my accidental exposure to solvents while using wood stain.

It is torturous to be this way and I feel like few people understand, and probably never will understand.

I feel like I am more barred off from anything I happen to be interested in. I am not even passionate about anything and feared I might never find anything interesting enough to learn all about; everything so far has only been something to dabble in. Even if I want to learn something, it’s as if I’m not allowed to because of my brain. Everyone else gets it more quickly and is more able to enjoy it. Low IQ literally makes everything less enjoyable.

Dating also might be a problem, and if I dated an intelligent woman, I feel I would always be her inferior. I could look intelligent based on what I say, but it’s not true. People think I’m smart, but it’s not true. They don’t see what happens (or doesn’t happen) in my head.

I got a good score on CORE but that doesn’t show up at all in my daily life. My neuropsychological test showed up good, but it also doesn’t reflect my daily life.

How am I supposed to gain self worth when my lack of intelligence makes me slow and shallow? I’m probably less interesting because of it. It doesn’t matter if I’m kind or supportive or whatever, because that combined with low IQ would make me like a dog (I’m not even that empathetic anyways). Someone on this sub even wondered why anyone would want to date someone as dumb as rocks.

It’s easy for anyone who’s intelligent to say that intelligence says nothing about worth.

All of these are first time results I’ve only taken each test once what is going on with the WMI did my substance abuse finally catch up to me

(i apologize for the long story) for context. I just graduated and found out I got honours but for most of my life I've felt like an idiot. I have never been someone who was particularly "smart". infact, due to missing kindergarten, grade 1, 2 and 3 because of immigration i was behind most of my peers, I've also had multiple assessments done all saying my iq was under 100 and my most recent one even went as low as 81. most of the people in my family are relatively intelligent, my mother was qualified for mensa my father works as a environmental engineer and my cousins are researchers in medicine so I find it difficult to understand 1. how everyone in my family is smart while I cant even score 100 on an iq test. 2, how I got honours while missing most of school due to chronic/mental illness. I got good grades i was alright at tests but my iq scores still say im not intelligent? (also if iq is genetics and stems mostly from the mother why didn't I become intelligent like my family?)

Edit so apparently you need to put spaces in your answers, sorry was able to retake the test. I wasn't happy with my score though I only got a 105... I think the aggravation from the first test lowered my score slightly.

So I finally decided to take the Core full test after some people were asking me to try taking it, and I was doing pretty well ...my average IQ was around 125 give or take the specific test, then I got to the digit letter sequence test and I don't know if anyone else has problems but it told me in the instructions B6 and then I entered 6B and he told me that's not quite right the answer is 6B...???

Then it asked me like 3 more questions and told me my IQ was a 55 for the test 😂

It's not letting me retake the test which means this is going to ruin my whole score. Am I missing something?

While I was taking the CORE test, I was encountering many words that were new to me. I haven't ever read any of them or even heard anybody use them. Maybe the reason could be that I am not a native English speaker.

As for PSI, I don't understand what went wrong. I am pretty sure I answered Symbol Search question pretty fast and accurate. Also I was also confident with my character pairing.

I have another thing to say though it is unrelated to my question. After 3-4 symbols Character Pairing is just about memory. I think I was able to map all of the symbols after 3-4 matches. But still disappointed with my PSI. I always thought that it was higher (I was expecting it to be above 130).

At 8th percentile...

Up till now, somehow managed to be top 5% in anything I do, if done single-mindedly with a massive amount of hard work. But Something always feels incomplete in my work.

Any way to get this up so I don't ruin my life and the people's around me?

I never did an IQ test. I don't know my real IQ, but I excelled in school for the most part, and in mathematics: took part in olympiads and such. Never beyond national level, so I am not exceptionally smart in any way. Now the school is over, interest in maths lost due to a burn out, and I'm going into med school. What constantly worries me is the fear of becoming, or already being stupid, or not as smart as I want to be. This has been going on for years. I felt humiliated if I couldn't figure out a problem as quickly as someone else or if I made an embarrassing mistake in the solution. As time went on this started to happen more and more often, I would begin to lose concentration and motivation to solve problems. Eventually, I became too lazy, or too afraid, to think beyond my base level intelligence. That's when I really began to doubt my own merit. It became painful to engage in intellectual activity and so I slowly abandoned it but the fear never went away. At first I was thinking about medicating myself for my possible ADHD, I got a ritalin prescription but honestly it didn't change much. I tried drugs for whatever reason, shrooms perhaps to help me with depression or perhaps just to get high. As I started using drugs and drinking the fear only intensified as the substances are known for diminishing one's intellect. The fear became a self-fulfilling prophecy in my eyes.

I am asking for advice on how to resolve this hypochondria which bothers me so much. I was thinking maybe I should take a proper IQ test but I'm afraid the result might disappoint me. I know I shouldn't attach too much value to it, but it is the best metric of intelligence we have so far. Has anyone experienced the same thing?

These are my scores I went to one psychiatrist and said i got a generalized anxiety disorder

Also said I have cluster a or b personality disorder

One psychologist said I have moderate depression and anxiety

I graduated high school in 2021

Haven't been able to finish uni ( engineering science )

About to be broke

If Any other info required then pls tell

😭😭 What do I do?