the average IQ in the U.S. is 98

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134. I was tested at age five.

My parents were desperate to get me in school because I was reading books at age four. I cannot remember not being able to read. My mother read to me but I don't remember that. I did not know my scores because my parents would not tell me.

I remember they freaked out because we were going down the freeway when I was little and read a sign that said "Jones Apothecary".

My school district did not have any school psychologists who could test me so they had to take me to the city. I discovered the papers a few years ago and I scored 148 on a Stanford-Binet at age five. They were freaked out because I did well in spatial reasoning and thinking in 3-D and they thought at that time that girls were not good at thinking in 3-D. Sewing is cutting out flat pieces of material and visualizing how they would look put together on a 3-D body. And I learned how to sew when I was young.

Two standard deviations above is 130. That's the top 2% which is the requirement to join Mensa.

Three standard deviations above is 145. That's one tenth of one percent, or one out of a thousand people.

There are high IQ societies that only take 145 and above, the Prometheus Society and the Triple-9 Society are two of them.
I never joined Mensa or any other High IQ society but knew a lot of people in Mensa. Most of the people I knew were classical musicians and programmers/mathematician/engineering majors.

I was praised for being smart but never had any guidance about figuring what I was really good at and telling me to go for it.

There are 3 different modalities of learning. My daughter came home from Montessori school with information about that. There are visual, auditory and kinesthetic modes of learning. Visual people learn by seeing. Auditory people learn by hearing. Kinesthetic people learn by moving their body. I play the piano by reading the notes visually but memorize by finger memory and hearing mistakes and correcting them.

I had to go to class in college but didn't know why. Turned out that I am auditory and kinesthetic. I had to hear the teacher talk in person and take notes (physical action). I am an excellent note taker. I know when to listen to the teacher and when to write down what they are saying. I've had entire classes in law school borrow my notes and copy them when the teacher had a thick accent and nobody could understand them. I could understand some of it, not all.

People who are olfactory are perfume blenders and people who are tasters are generally chefs. They are more rare than the basic three.