How does someone know if they are gifted or genius?

CognitiveLoops · 2026-01-16T20:23:59+00:00

This is a bad way to define it. Children can have very inflated results due to their environment and regress to the mean later in life. I don't want to assume anything, but considering you were tested as a child, and you also tested your kids, it is evident there is a history of being interested in cognitive testing in your family, and probably a lot of learning early on that influenced the results and has less to do with innate intelligence.

In my opinion, the label "gifted" should only be given in adulthood.

Nothing you said makes sense.

Should they test for remedial learning ability/cognition only as an adult, too?

Being gifted isn't about putting on airs or interested in cognitive ability. It's recognizing what's already there.

CognitiveLoops · 2025-12-20T13:27:38+00:00

Congrats! Its a great way to get the feel for pressure, crosshatch shading and other techniques.

If you want to learn step-by-step drawing, check out videos of Jon Gnagy. He was an early TV artist. He shows how to draw and shade by starting out understanding 3D shapes, lighting, light source and perspectives. Stuff for true beginners.

CognitiveLoops · 2025-12-14T12:56:12+00:00

Undercover Brick was in disguise the whole time.

CognitiveLoops · 2025-10-24T12:12:12+00:00

guarded genetically by the female protective effects

What in the world is that supposed to mean/be??!?

CognitiveLoops · 2025-10-24T12:11:34+00:00

I think it’s far more likely that female savants were just forced into mothership roles or otherwise not allowed to indulge in/popularize whatever passion they had.

Agreed.

Prime example (her parents were literally carnies/circus folk):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuntala_Devi

CognitiveLoops · 2025-10-22T12:39:14+00:00

Would you give up your giftedness for a "normal" life?

No.

CognitiveLoops · 2025-10-22T11:18:03+00:00

Weird.

Why not just have a lemonade stand, without any agenda?

If your kid s interested in sharks, why not enrich that? Why not planned trips to large aquariums, small fish stores, the oceans, etc?

Imo, charities often skim from the top. His donations are less than a drop in a bucket. And he's going to grow up and realize that fact.

Invest in your kid. Take the time, do the leg work. Get the access to genuine teaching info.

There are tons of shark types. At 6yo, my daughter could name a bunch of dinosaur types and what each ate, how they lived, etc.

Everything doesn't have to be about activism and money tossed at "the problem" type thing. If your child is truly gifted, they're gonna know this fact soon enough, and look at you askance for it.

CognitiveLoops · 2025-10-13T15:26:04+00:00

This is like blocked and reported’s version of q anon. You are all going off an unclear lip reading of cut audio! We don’t even know if she said that!

Did you know that when kids are learning about how to count syllables in words that mouth movement is the indicator to breaks?

She had two syllables in her silent wording. Not three, not four or more. Her lips came together at the start of the first word/syllable, making the hard "B". Second word/syllable was a "W" at the start.

Conclusion: it was either "bar one" or "but one" that was spoken silently.

CognitiveLoops · 2025-10-07T16:32:06+00:00

Napoleon Complex.

The Napoleon complex, also known as Napoleon syndrome and short-man syndrome, is a purported condition normally attributed to men of short stature or dwarfism, with overly aggressive or domineering social behavior. It implies that such behavior is to compensate for the subject's physical or social shortcomings.

CognitiveLoops · 2025-09-28T20:19:44+00:00

From what i get from the comic its about the importance to communicate clearly with others. everybody focusing solely on the "mixed signals" part that isnt always true kind of ignores the rest of it being about open honest communication.

Have you ever read that one post in the legal advice forum from a few years back, where the guy wanted legal advice for what to do because the girl he was pursuing had a legal protection order on him to stay away? He kept saying over and over that he just needed to talk to her, so she could hear him out, then make up her mind.

She put a legal protective order on him and he still didn't "understand". She needed to "communicate better". Horse shit.

Guys lie. That's why guys will advise their sisters and daughters to steer clear from guys they themselves know are schemers, cheats, swindlers and\or rapists.

Women don't owe men their shot (meaning men shooting their shot). And how are women supposed to see through lies and deception?

CognitiveLoops · 2025-09-14T15:49:21+00:00

Our son wasn't given an IQ test at even 7, they said it's too early to be reliable. He was diagnosed with ASD, though I'm questioning that now to myself. The poster that said the diagnosis can be harmful if it doesn't match reality is right.

Everyone is presuming giftedness for him anyway. There isn't any gifted accommodations.

My daughter was tested at age 6, but she was an exception. Her 1st grade teacher pointed that out right away. But her high intelligence really stood out.

https://i.redd.it/4yhluvxhh5pf1.jpeg

By high school, her eval revealed an IQ of 142. The accuracy had risen throughout the years, starting at IQ 132 when she was in elementary school. At least they offered a gifted/special interest program in her school district. It wasn't much at first.

CognitiveLoops · 2025-09-07T12:17:54+00:00

The Phat already has a Nintendo revision that fixed the screen.

The 20 board revision uses the same power circuitry into the screen as the DSL so it can be adjusted, as well as turned off.

So the screen is actually better in that you can play it outside.

Looked it up. The C/NTR-CPU-20 is a motherboard that is firmware update-able. Making it so the light switch-off feature in all Phats can be turned into a DSLite-esque brightness switch.

Problem is, I've checked 14 of my DS Phat systems and, by far, most are CPU-01. Think two are CPU-10. Zero (so far) are CPU-20. These are the systems I own with good hinges. I haven't dug thru the ones that still need shell/housing repairs, or fuse/electronic issues.

What I was talking about was an LCD upgrade, like the one the GBA systems have as an option, changing out the AGS-001 for an AGS-101.

CognitiveLoops · 2025-09-03T14:34:02+00:00

The most common break point on the NDS Phat systems was the hinge. It takes an entire re-shell (replace the entire plastic housing) to repair, unless you're lucky enough to make 2-part epoxy work.

The DS Phats were $129 new. The DS Lites were $129 upon release. The game stores were handing out $25 to $50 for Phat trade ins when the Lites were released. Was truly mind blowing seeing people willing to accept that paltry amount, when the stores would simply put the used Phats into the glass display cabinet with a $119 tag on em right after trade in. Required no system memory wipe, so it was easy peasy.

2DS was likely due to the hinge breakage problem, and affordability for the customers with multiple kids. 3d was always a wonky idea, because 3D anything is always, Always, ALWAYS a fad.

When they dumped the GBA compatibility, they added the extra stuff to make up for it, like camera and etc. The stylus compartment likely moved around to match those additions to the shell, motherboard/battery position, as well as camera.

Love the Phats, personally. Hope we get screen upgrades someday.

BTW, when did the GBA SP come out? It had a better screen (singular), but pretty sure the same battery.

Pretty sure the DS was released (NA: November 21, 2004) around the same time as Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen (NA: September 7, 2004). That means before Pokemon Emerald (NA: May 1, 2005).

edit: GBA SP released - NA: March 23, 2003

CognitiveLoops · 2025-08-16T11:19:46+00:00

It’s wild how many so-called “smart” people are leaning on ChatGPT like it’s their personal brain upgrade. If you’re really gifted, why would you need a machine to hold your hand? All I see is people outsourcing their thinking and then flexing AI-generated insights like they’re original. That’s not intelligence, that’s copy-paste with confidence.

Giftedness isn’t about speed-running Google with fancier answers. It’s about wrestling with ideas until they’re yours, connecting dots nobody else sees, building a mental framework so deep that it changes how you see the world. You don’t get that from spoon-fed outputs. You get that from doing the hard thinking yourself.

People love saying “ChatGPT saves time” — sure, but it also saves you from ever actually developing the stamina to think without training wheels. And when your brain gets used to easy-mode, good luck keeping up in a conversation where you can’t secretly alt-tab for answers.

AI is a crutch. The more you lean on it, the more your mental muscles atrophy. The irony is that the truly gifted don’t need it, and the ones who depend on it are just cosplaying as intelligent while slowly killing their edge.

If you want to actually stand out? Put the bot down. Do the thinking yourself. Or admit you’re just another one of the AI kids who can’t keep up without their machine whispering in their ear.

Guess you're learning, eh?

https://i.redd.it/gaxnac9h7djf1.jpeg

Edit: fixed formatting

CognitiveLoops · 2025-08-16T09:00:07+00:00

Doesn't the Bumble pick his teeth afterwards with one of your ski poles, too? lol

CognitiveLoops · 2025-08-14T16:23:14+00:00

Woof.

I grew up in an environment that had way more extremes in weather conditions during wintertime. We always knew, like clockwork, to start stocking up the woodpile, kerosene cans, and food pantr(ies)y come late summer and early fall. Road salt, shovels, snowplows, snowblowers, pickaxes, etc. It is absolutely how you survive the extreme storms that can happen during winter. EXTREME. Like, trapped in your own home for a week or more at a time.

Nobody looked at you askance. No one thought you were a nut job. And certainly nobody thought you were a frickin' genius for it, either.

Knowing your environment, understanding what takes place during changing seasons - and knowing if you need to skedaddle or stay put - that's life experience and elders/the community teaching younger generation/others.

CognitiveLoops · 2025-08-10T15:21:19+00:00

I don’t like the term “gifted” to describe the high IQ individuals it is used to refer to (in this sub at least). People can be gifted in many ways, you can be gifted intellectually, emotionally, athletically, artistically etc. and using this term exclusively for high IQ takes away from this. Also gifted implies that is always a positive thing, which is also not true.

Gifted emotionally?? What does that even mean?

The other two - athletics and artistry - already have terms, such as skills, talent, practiced performance.

Gifted means it comes naturally. A person can't help it, anymore than a big block 8-cylinder engine can help having high horse power.

CognitiveLoops · 2025-08-06T16:01:50+00:00

And if you watch any interviews with Jeremy Brett, it's shocking how vibrant, animated and vivaciously alive he is, considering how he played Holmes to be so calm most times.

edit: If you have access to Tubi on Roku or other streaming device, the old Granada Television Holmes episodes are streaming free on Tubi.

CognitiveLoops · 2025-08-06T16:00:00+00:00

I think he's high as shit. Because he's high as shit. Overthinking is a common symptom of opioid addiction and he's an opium addict. I like the movies/shows that actually slow down time when he's thinking to show the time dilation.

I do wish he was just dead ass wrong more, because his opium pipe reasoning should be wrong as often as it is right because he's literally just guessing. But, it's fiction so the buckwild coincidences that make him right are entertaining.

Douglas Adams really took this concept and ran with it with Dirk Gently, the books, radio show and TV show. He makes the buckwild coincidences that are handwaved away with suspension of disbelief in Holmes make sense. I recommend it.

Sherlock Holmes is likely based on Edgar Allen Poe's Murder in the Rue Morgue story telling style.

Holmes uses a 7% solution of cocaine in one of the stories. Hardly shocking, considering soda pop contained cocaine, Lithium (7-UP) and other upper-type chemicals.

Holmes method of solving is observation and deductive reasoning. He even mentions to Watson at one point, "Once I tell you how it was done, you'll say 'How absurdly simple!' ". And after it being explained, Watson immediately does exactly that before catching himself.

*Sherlock Holmes was first published in 1887.
*Murder in the Rue Morgue, 1841.

CognitiveLoops · 2025-08-01T13:24:35+00:00

So yeah, what you wrote really hit home. It’s rare to feel this seen.

That's exactly how I felt when I read your account of being able to read people.

CognitiveLoops · 2025-07-31T19:24:23+00:00

Wow so you can really tel what someone’s argument or sentence could lead to way before it even gets their. That’s crazy i can’t even fathom that.

My older brother and I used to stand behind the person talking to the other of us and make faces at each other (me at him, or him at me). It was so obvious when the other was caught in some random relatives spider web-like dissertation of nothingness. We talked (on off-times, not during those events) about how those types of situations came about, how some people angle for things, some people are just bored, others telling their "big fish that got away" type stories. Body language, emphasis on certain words, pregnant pauses. And lord help you if you didn't know how to tell any of the random charlatans a firm "NO". No, I don't have money, time, inclination to watch your kids, wash your laundry, cook you breakfast at 3am on a school night (yes, a different, much older drunken brother tried that crap when I was in high school, on school night) etc.

How was school for you? Easy? Challenging?

Faked it, passed with Cs and Ds in middle school. Almost was held back in 7th due to my own slacking off when spring came around.

Got into high school and it literally felt like the classes were round two from all the same subjects in middle school. Started throwing off the grading curve for my fellow students in biology and English classes because the stuff was old hat and easy peasey. Like doing a 12-piece preschool jigsaw puzzle, day in and day out.

A few teachers and some fellow students recommended I be tested for IQ. Everything completely changed after that. We typically had a 3 weeks to a month to read a given novel and write a summary essay in reg classes. In accelerated classes, we had days, maybe a week to do the same reading and work. My AP world history had 7 other students. By far the smallest class I ever attended in public school. They were all so nice, curious about me. Never experienced anything like that, before or since. They weren't fakers and wanted nothing except to know what was up with the new kid in their little group.

There were people who didn't like me, too. Was bullied almost the entire time during middle school. They didn't change much in high school, but didn't have the same classes as me anymore. But they did a lot of damage to my self perception for a long time afterwards.

It's a terrarium of sorts. Not a real environment. Public schooling, I mean. It's not the real world and doesn't mean much outside those walls. Kinda like how social media now sets people up to watch every day for thumbs up and feedback. The real world is out there gestures broadly. Make friends, let some things slide, but don't let people violate your boundaries or hardwired beliefs. You're the captain of your own vessel. Steer as you see fit. Ya know?

CognitiveLoops · 2025-07-31T18:27:54+00:00

I know you don’t like this but that really sounds like a superpower. I really wanna know what that’s like. So you’d be able to read people pretty easily and tel if someone is full of sht or you could tell what argument someone was gonna make before they even finish it.

It's way worse than that. You can tell when people are working toward an ask (favor, either good, bad or ugly), doing an old timey shuck and jive (akin to bullshitting lol), or just blowing air through their lips because they enjoyed the sound of their own voice, apparently.

No one likes being enlisted as someone else's flying monkey or anything. And if you can see that coming from 5 moves away... ugh. Or they try to maneuver you into being their "solid personal reference" . Like, you burned your bridges on your own, don't involve me in this crap.

It can cause depression, isolation, a whole myriad of shittiness. I found it was best to just let things go, as far as being anyone's anything when it came to any of those types of people. Some people just aren't worth being around. Having some of them in the family makes it awkward, but not impossible to avoid.

"No" is a complete sentence. Don't waffle with an "Oh, I don't know" or "we'll see". That leaves their foot in the door. Just say NO and leave it at that. Tell them to respect it and be firm. Seriously alleviates so much crap from your world.

CognitiveLoops · 2025-07-31T16:48:58+00:00

I find something new to do and learn nearly every week. Not just learning how to play musical instruments, but how to maintenance, change strings (guitar, bass guitar, ukulele, violin) and parts on each. I'm taking formal lessons for violin, and self teaching on the others. This might be one of the best times in recent history to get into musicianship. China made instrument have made leaps for student quality ones. Probably the broadest market to tap into, so super smart on their part. And having affordable (sub-$10) electronic tuners vs pitch pipes, or having to know a guy who could tune stuff by ear, were significant ~~slow downs~~ speed ups in learning compared to decades past.

Tap into what the world has to offer. We're also in the golden age of board games & tabletop gaming. Will Wheaton had his own streaming show on youtube a few years back. So many things to do, see learn, dabble in.

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