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Mental Integration
I can't help thinking that there are people who are diagnosed with something that they don't actually have; mentally, that is. It seems that some people with autism are able to identify someone else with autism. I, myself, have been questioned many times by different doctors, psychologists, and psychiatrists on whether I have autism. First: why did they ask me? and second; why do some people with autism tell me?
Easy! I present with symptoms of autism. I don't look people in the eye. I work better on my own. I am distracted by other people. I can work, completely solitary, for hours without a break. My focus is laser-like.
All of those are because I have PTSD and a very high IQ with a good deal of patience and a desire to complete a task before I forget what I have done so far. Not looking someone in their eyes is because I had terrible uncorrected eyesight and looked at the thing I saw moving; someone's mouth. Nuances in people's eyes were not available to me, so I focused on nuances in their voices. This last is why I have no need for video-conferencing and telephone calls work better for me. Looking at someone's face is merely a distraction from their words. I don't trust smiles as genuine. I am trained to smile, simply because I don't as a natural condition.
There is a single parent woman, down the road from me, who laments that her neighbour blanks her. In my village people like quiet times. This woman likes to shout at her kids because it works for her. It doesn't work for her neighbour. Here is where I get contentious. One of them has a greater mental acuity than the other. That is not indicative of who is right, or righteous, or kind, or empathic, or stupid. I have met PhD graduates that many people would consider to be struggling to find two thoughts to rub together. I am just going to have to put aside that people have diagnosable mental ill-health conditions as a primary source of their difficulties they may exhibit in any particular environment; this is in order for me to be able to introduce 'high IQ' as a source for subsequent mental ill-heath.
We think differently. I am amazed at how much rubbish comes out of some mouths; my own included, and I mean I talk rubbish a lot. The woman down the road likes to worry that her doorbell is not working and she NEEDS to get a new one. I told her that most medieval people never had doorbells; they just banged on each other's doors with pitchforks. Many sensible modern people don't have door-bells. Well, they wouldn't, if the paranoid people didn't. If everyone in my road has a Ring doorbell and I do not, I am the target for thieves. Thanks, you lot!
The 'shouty' woman down the road is scared to drive her car because an acorn fell on her car roof while she was driving it. She told me today that she is at her wits end because her teenage son is running her ragged. If he has three thoughts to rub together he might be impatient with someone with only two thoughts - contemptuous even. See? If her son is super clever, he cannot integrate into a family of mildly clever people. The way he thinks, if it is markedly different to his home family thoughts, I suggest, will make him tempestuous to everyone with less mental acuity than he has. Only someone with a high IQ can recognise a high IQ in someone else. The key, then, is to teach him not to be disrespectful to people with only the same thoughts to rub together. 'That's Life, Kiddo!'
Contempt, misunderstanding, and fear of something different. Sound familiar? Too topical, maybe?
Now then; the clever lad down the road might want to protest that everyone with an IQ that is less than his, should leave his country. Rather, the other way around; because if his IQ is really high he will not integrate well in an average environment.
I like to simplify things. Teenagers are sharp because they are trained to use their brains at school. Parents are dull because they stop using their brains after 'Uni' or whatever, or more likely, school. Fit and agile brains hate dull and slow brains, So, if you want to get on with your teenagers, don't send them to school; take away anything stimulating when they are between the ages of birth and eleven, so they don't form strong connections in their brains; and make them watch television. They should then be dull enough to integrate with the average family environment.
Me, I am going to blockade 'skools' so children can't get out and contaminate us with intelligence and knowledge.
The 'shouty' woman told me that her son is going to be assessed by a mental health team. They will say he has ADHD, autism or some kind of sociopathy, she surmised. If the testing team don't have a higher IQ than him. that is all they will see. I suggest an non-integrated high IQ might exhibit ADHD, autism, or some kind of sociopathy, because they are not properly diagnosed as having a higher IQ than the tester.This is HIGHLY likely, I propose.