How do I know if I am gifted or just… smart?
Another post with a similar title is on here, though it is archived, and of course it doesn’t answer questions from *my* perspective.
I was generally regarded as a really smart child growing up. Even though I was daydreamy as hell (because of my ADHD), I generally aced quizzes and tests. Read and watched a whole lot about space and the world, plus the designs and technical specifications of objects.
In middle school I started facing problems. I couldn’t keep up at all. Somehow, I scraped through.
High school, I joined this SubReddit, after my IQ scores came back (affected somewhat because I was being wrongly treated for my ADHD). Earlier I used to chat in ‘genz-talk’ (bruh, lol), but after careful observation here, I started to write properly. My vocab also improved slightly.
I got properly medicated and all. I see patterns in STEM subjects that most others don’t. My teachers always say that I have a good brain acquired through genetics (from my father who is an overachiever in his own right). I started to trust in my thinking and use logic more and more. It resulted in the creation of literary work in mere minutes, and I could very well see the problems in systems and my own thinking too. Ego is the enemy of me, and somehow I haven’t been able to get rid of it. Sorry friends, I don’t mean it when I say something to you.
I have varied interests, from computing and literature to music production, vocaloid, fountain pens, psychology (I especially got this one after hyper-fixating on my ADHD diagnosis, I need the DSM-V just to read! 😛)
Not that giftedness matters anyway, but should I consider myself highly intelligent or ‘gifted’? The stereotypically ‘gifted’ people generally achieve a whole lot in their early years, however this can be influenced by my ADHD. I have determined that IQ tests can’t really benchmark me properly, as I get a whole lot of issues in IQ tests.