I smell a trap here to weed out all those potential dates who are full of themselves.
Very smart.

Develop some comedic timing. Then you can openly mock people and have them laughing with you. Life can be boring otherwise.

Oh, I can be quite snooty about being intelligent. I hate stupid! Not as in someone who isn't a real quick thinker but someone who is WILLFULLY IGNORANT! When so much information is so readily accessible these days, those who refuse to look at information, accept known facts, do some research if they are skeptical rather than just dig in on what their opinion is. All that drives me nuts. Needless to say, the state of things currently is about to push me over the edge at times.

Many of these "facts" suggest arrogance more than they reflect intelligence. I don't care what most other people think, for the most part, because I'm comfortable with myself not out of contempt for humanity.

If you have to watch and edit what you say and dumb it down for your acquaintances/associates, that's a sign you're rating your own intellect against a very low bar. You should consider spending time with people who challenge you not confirm your bias.

Open LGBTQ people have a higher average IQ, but it's statistically disingenuous to see a correlation as causation. Maybe LGBTQ people with more intelligence are more likely to come out.

Finally, you shouldn't rate yourself in the most intelligent segment of society if you cannot count to 9.

I would never consider any other person beneath me. Neither would I post an arbituary figure based on whether or not you are good at working out sequences. Intelligence for me is far more complex. Some people on the ASD score highly on formal IQ tests but are unable to match their socks. Intelligence is about subtle awareness of the environment, of other people, of other creatures. It considers the past and the future and see each living thing as vital to our existence. Intelligence understands the complexities of human endeavour and conflict and respects all. There are vastly intelligent people who have never picked up a book. Respect all and always look for the best in everyone...you'll find it

Whhooh very little of that applies to me although I rather thought I was intelligent enough sounds like to be thought intelligent you have to be a wee nasty piece of work. Glad to be one of the other lot!

I tested out at 164 at 6 when I never slept and was reading at 3. Fuck being smart. Most tests are pattern identification, spacial awareness, logic processing and all linguistic based. Intelligence spans so much more. I can memorize sheet music, but I can’t perform. I can read 930 words per minute, but I can’t type without looking at the keyboard. I drink copiously so I can be remotely social. I identify with a few of these, but I don’t think you can list or quantify the human brain. I’d trade 20 points for a bit more empathy. I hate that I don’t care about any of this bullshit because nihilistic existentialism.

I've been measured between 140 and 143. Very little of the list applies to me, at least AFaIK.
I get along pretty dang well with others.
I have been successful in college and in a fairly technical career. I like science books, documentaries and other thought-provoking movies.
But I like stupid humor and stuff like that, to a certain extent.
I think more goes in to being a snooty asshole than intelligence.

1.You might feel frustrated with "normal" people and only want to hang with intellectual equals.

5.you don't care what other people think since you think them beneath you, and wonder what's wrong with everyone.

Sorry but this is not really a symptom of true intelligence - both of these points are offkey..

Thinking people are beneath you is actually a flaw in critical thinking caused by specific types of personaltiy. Einstein for one made many comments to counter this view.... people of true intelligence tend to be accepting across the board .. although spending time alone may be essential if highly intelligent, all truly intelligent people will definitely claim they are no brighter than anyone else.. Just better suited to that environment.

Intersted in your sources here.

I have an IQ of 145, but I have almost always fought most of the tendencies you describe. As a child and young man, I had the privilege of knowing some remarkable uneducated people and from whom I learned some important things. I am repulsed by elitism, including intellectual elitism. In 1968, while in graduate school I received a written invitation from Mensa to join the group. I declined in writing, citing the elitism I saw in people I knew who were drawn to Mensa.

Have you had your IQ tested?

I don't believe that some of those "facts" that you mentioned are actually facts. Do you have any evidence, for example, for the correlation between high IQ and likelihood of being LGBT?

I haven't heard of the connection between high IQ and mental illness either.

My IQ is 139, which I suppose makes me a stupid genius.

I find it frustrating when I make conections people don't see. I remember in an online forum defining creativity as being able to look at something from a 90 degree angle, instead of looking at it straight on. They didn't get the point, which made me the stupid one.

One woman I dated was not merely unattractive: she was strange looking. But she was intelligent, and i missed her terribly when it ended.

I doubt that I will ever find out what my IQ is.

Around thirty years ago I took a quick IQ test and scored fairly highly. On the strength of this I booked myself in for a MENSA test. The test was to be held in a city about 20 miles away. At the time I was quite poor and owned an old moped with a two-stroke engine, so I decided to use this to travel to the test venue. Unfortunately, on the way there the moped broke down. The cause was that I had not added sufficient two-stroke oil to the fuel mix, totally my fault. I was stranded on the roadside until a kind motorist rescued me. By this time it was too late for the test and I was taken home along with the moped.

The moped engine was terminal. Due to not having enough oil there was damage to the piston or the cylinder or both. This was the end of my Garelli Concorde moped and I have never since owned another motorcycle of any description.

I never went back to attempt the MENSA test because in my mind I had failed completely by causing this avoidable breakdown. A genius would not have done this.

I have a few degrees but I'm still stupid and enjoy it.

I must say I feel your pain and it's very frustrating. It's like you get the average person but they never get you. So I find myself selling out intelligent people to listen to. Since I can't be around them. I could go on but I'm not. It's just nice to see that I'm not alone (which I kinda figured LBVS). It's just sad how many people there are who really aren't smart at all. It makes me angry at times so I've just been trying to find other smart people to communicate with.

Can't say I fit in the LGBTQ love looking and being attracted to women. Would not look down on anyone everyone has something to teach. Can say I am misunderstood a great deal of the time. My brain is in constant motion. I can invent and create on a whim.

The sad part is when I was young and attractive in the 1970s, I thought something was wrong with me. Men didn't want women who were smarter than them. I was well into my 30s before I realized I was surrounded by fools.

What are the statistics you are talking about? I would like to see them, because your blanket statement that agnostics are more intelligent....I'm quite interested.

I have had difficulty meeting locals because I am a political activist and social justice warrior. Same with being Anti-Trump, can't be around cigarette smoke and pro-diversity. I've changed since my last relationship with a political science professor.

I don't look down on other people and think they are beneath me... no matter what... I have always agreed with bill hicks that we are "a virus with shoes"... I am somewhat a misanthrope.. It really irks me when people act like they are better... in my opinion its delusional (ego)

Yes, I have all those things in common, except I'm hetero

Geeze... high IQ? I just don't put up with crap. I must be the dumb ass in here. I think people that have money are smarter then me. Im sitting ok, but i can't travel the world like the well off...lol.

I embrace my brains. One of the things that people point out about me is how smart I am. I often underestimate this, but I know it's true.

yay, maybe things are looking up for me, I think my age(senility?) has pushed me below 140. Normality here I come ladies.

No, I don't like being intelligent. I'd rather be tall. People either a) don't understand me, or b) resent me. So I feel a lot of alienation, and hand in hand with this, pure contempt for many of my fellow human beings. I try to work on this, because I am not without sympathy for this crap-shoot we call life.

I never really considered there might be a link between my gender-expression/sexuality and my intelligence. I do like smart women. I am not a very "manly" man, I'd rather read poetry than watch sports, and I am generally bored with displays of strength and prowess. That said, I am surprisingly very strongly heterosexual-I attended a college where being gay, or bisexual, or trans was openly accepted, and if I had any leanings that way there would have been no shame-and plenty of opportunity.

The jury is out on whether or not I am bipolar. I was diagonosed as such, but then had a long decade where I was very even-tempered, and now the mood swings seem to be back. I am profoundly suspeicious of neurotransmitter-mediating drugs. I think we're playing around with stuff we don't really understand.

I try to strike a balance between my intelligence and creativity, mostly because people seem to relate better to my creative side, it doesn't seem to threaten them as much. But more often, my creation is a solitary pursuit. It is less helpful at dealing with intellectual isolation than it might seem.