Meet the schoolgirl, 12, who has an IQ of 162...

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38. Yep, see my post upthread.

I tried really hard to hide it, dumbed down my speech, pretended I didn't know the answers in school.

I drank. A LOT - starting at age 12. I think my particular reason for drinking was my brain never turned off and I could never just relax and enjoy myself because I was constantly analyzing everything, from the dangers of how fast my boyfriend was driving, to my friends not buckled in, to if I would look silly if I buckled up, to how much time I had left till curfew, to if what the girls in the back said meant something sinister....unless I drank my thoughts overwhelmed me to the point I became completely silent and then got teased as being the 'quiet one'. I was too scared to try drugs though (illegal and I'd been arrested once - shoplifting - and knew if I got arrested again I'd have a permanent record since here they erase your record as a youth if you don't reoffend). That was likely a really good thing - the alcohol got me in enough trouble.

I had a 'real' iq test at 18 that was 131, which isn't THAT high although what is frustrating is the test taker wasn't clear it was a timed test, so I totally took my time so had I known I probably would've scored higher. I've done online ones since that I've gotten 150-160 but I don't put a lot of stock in the online ones.