@alice @axnxcamr @actuallyautistic I believe I'm actually an extreme case of using IQ to avoid the worst consequences of trying to face a neuroconformist world with a neurodivergent psyche. I just recognized myself in "Person One" from C.L. Lynch's 2019 article on the autistic spectrum. So how did I reach age 67 without getting a diagnosis of autism, or feeling the need to seek support for such a condition? I had an intellect that enabled me to graduate with a Magna and Phi Beta Kappa from an Ivy League university — and I was NOT a legacy. Problems resulting from executive function deficits, inability to read social cues, etc., were brute-forced with IQ — and the help of my wife — to the point that they were dismissed (by myself and others) as merely stereotypical "nerd" or "absent-minded professor" behavior. But intelligence is not wisdom, and I now feel like a fool for having needlessly borne a great lifelong burden, and failed to recognize it for what it was, simply because it was unable to destroy me.