There is a poll about IQ. From the answer many adder seems to be on the hight range of IQ.
An other thread is a call for help from someone which expose his intellectual precociousness.( I will look after this post, i think it's from singapour )
And generally, on this forum and in others sites, there are many testimony of youth uneasiness or misfortune.

I'm asking if some of our problemes, for example bad self esteem and fidgety can be related to a lack of consideration during our youth from our parents/family/ scholl for our big precosly intellectual curiosity ?

For example, i know that at 9 y. i think a lot about aircraft motor and was able to understand that if the plane goes very hight, it will need a different kind of reactor. Obviously i had never heard at this age of a stato reactor. Nobody around me know anythhing of some kind of science or technology...

Later, at 16 Y. when in school we learn the vectors and the basics of liner algebra, i tried to generalyse it and later i recognise that in doing this i tried rediscover tensorial calculus.

In both events i was totally alone with my interrogations.
In the latter events, as i was more mature, i try to insist by my math and phisics teacher. As i was not a very good student both laught at me ...

How many of you had similar events of intellectual curiosity ?
( I prefer talking of precociousness intellectual curiosity than hight IQ or precocious intelligence as the word curiosity just means that the questions were precococious. It doesn't mean that the answers were right...)

When I was young, I was not much of a "real world theorist" as my interests tended to be a bit on the unusual side, however, my early years made it obvious that I was very different from most people. I started reading early, having a preference for books such as encyclopedias and dictionaries. I had a very strong interest in mathematics as I had learned most math from reverse engineering examples only. I learned to write computer programs by analyzing examples in BASIC and Fortran from old college text books when I was 9, and I never even had a computer. My computer knowledge is completely self-acquired without the influence, encouragement, or aid of any other person or environmental factor. Today, I know several programming languages and I am extremely competent with technology in general.

Who am I? You would never guess I grew up on a farm . . .

Hmmm well when I was little, I'd just read through the encyclopedia or dictionaries, not looking for anything in particular, but just soaking in different info. I was never really discouraged from anything intellectual...but I am sure I drove my mom bonkers every time I'd beg her to read me questions from our trivia pursuit game before bed LMAO

The only things I was ever really turned away from doing were things like dance lessons and piano lessons simply because we were broke, but I don't think my parents realized how much I would have liked those.

I did the same thing- read info. Are ADDers treasure troves of useless information like me?

That's interesting -- me too. We had the World Book Encyclopedia set, and I must have read the whole thing by the time I was 14. I still read the encyclopedia when I'm procrastinating or just too wired to go to sleep.

I used to read the dictionary. I still prefer reading reference type books, skipping around and I do not read novels. That's classic ADD distraction where your mind daydreams too much and you cannot finish a page without thinking about a million other things.

And yes I've always been very curious as well.

LOL DITTO Paul....I used to read like little teen romance novels when I was younger...and RARELY will I read a novel now. I read one a while back, but only because it was a contemporary Christian novel my aunt gave me for Christmas. I actually enjoyed it, it was inspirational and uplifting and hard to put down, but I would NEVER just go out and choose a novel as my first choice of reading. My own book collection is like 85% HOW-to/reference/humor....anything not actually in story form all the way through. HEH...only novels I have are some left over from my younger years that I loved and don't wanna get rid of...but you'll probably never find me reading them again!