Very high IQ here and I feel insane. I'm not sure if knowledge is the answer to the emptiness in my life. It's like I can't contain this insatiable desire to learn... about love... and life...and everything in and around it. I feel absent in a family environment and feel lost in a social one. I just seem to wait and watch... observing habits and feelings and... reactions to events taking place every where. Libraries are a place I could spend a lifetime in. Music is like a window to the human soul... the patterns are amazing... and the list goes on.
2006-09-20 08:34:33 · 12 answers · asked by chance_ghost 1 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
Correct spelling: Genius* ... for the record.
2006-09-20 09:33:28 · update #1
if you question your sanity, you're probably sane.
open up, enjoy. been there, done that.
2006-09-20 08:37:36 · answer #1 · answered by JLT 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go for it - knowledge is everything - and not just the ABC kind. Go for the wisdom that comes with knowledge and you're on a winner. And the fact you can see the magic in music - being the window to human soul and the amazing patterns - So are you doing something about the access you have to the non-physical realms. Maybe you could get in touch with fellow Mensas - they probably have the same difficulties. Though I wouldn't call it a problem more a challenge to keep going.
There is also the line between someone being awake and asleep. Knowledge brings a dimension of awakening - those that can see peripherally and can see beyond the norms of Joe Blogs and the average lemming.
Go as high as you can.
2006-09-20 09:38:30 · answer #2 · answered by Mercury 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could you be Autistic? It is thought that Einstein could have been Autistic! Or maybe it's just your age, teen years can produce these phases. Nothing wrong with acquiring knowledge. Genius is how you spell genious. Insanity can also produce intelligence. See the film "A Beautiful Mind" if you already haven't. Music and mathematics are closely related. Also are Music and Art.
2006-09-20 08:50:54 · answer #3 · answered by its me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the line is thin and many of us cross it on a daily basis. I had a soccer coach in college who gave me some of the best advice I've ever heard, short, and to the point, he said: ''life is about not letting your lows get too low, and your highs too high''. I'm not so sure thats what life is ''all'' about, but it sounds like you could use the same advice. Don't let life get too serious, but don't let it get down right silly either. Whatever you do, it should make you happy. Whether you find what it is that makes you that way, I believe, is a matter of attitude. If you believe you'll find it, you will. Have a good one.
2006-09-20 08:46:46 · answer #4 · answered by Hans B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where the line is between insanity and genius, to me is quite simple; if you are useing your intellegence in a positive manner that is accectable to society, then you are quite sane, however if your over zealous quest for knowledge is causing you or someone else difficulty embrassing society, then perhaps you should take a look at your true rational.
2006-09-20 08:49:24 · answer #5 · answered by BONNIE B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truly crazy people never ask if they are insane; they just assume everyone else around them is crazy. Being genious and insane are a thin line usually though, at least in my research and experience with others, but I don't think there is anything wrong with you.
2006-09-22 13:04:34 · answer #6 · answered by catgoturtongue 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is research that ther is a correlation between high IQ and creativity, and further that the openness to stimuli related to this will lead to two conditions:
"Creative, because their openness to new possibilities and stimuli gives them more, and more various, information with which to make connections and have new ideas, or
Psychotic, because their openness to new possibilities and stimuli leads to overload and mental illness."
Maybe that's why so many historical figures estimated above 200 essentially were considered mad.
2006-09-20 08:58:54 · answer #7 · answered by Danny42378 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the line is a thin one, and you have to be active in making it a solid and secure boundary for yourself. First of all if you feel insane, see a doctor and then get involved in classes that will elevate your obvious boredom.
2006-09-20 08:38:49 · answer #8 · answered by Jep 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not so much a line as a twilight zone. My Steve was like that, and I've heard it referred to as Asperger's Syndrome. It means you are too smart to fit in with modern life, and you have trouble suffering fools gladly. These days, that's a syndrome, not just a rational choice.
2006-09-20 08:42:39 · answer #9 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Who said they were separate? I much prefer my insane state of mind. I do not have to justify my actions to anyone.
I am with you though, I crave information and can not get enough of it. I see beauty in things that others ignore. I spent 90 % of my life thinking something was wrong with me until one day I realized, it wasn't me, it was them...... Try to funnel your interests into a specialty.
2006-09-20 08:40:37 · answer #10 · answered by Annie R 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
genius is insanity able to be rationally explained to the public.
2006-09-20 09:11:05 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋