one of the most terrifying things i've ever learned was what a 100-point IQ actually means

intelligent people usually end up selecting for intelligent social circles, and it's easy to wind up sincerely thinking you're kinda dumb and slow when you're actually 140-IQ and vastly more intelligent than the great majority of humans who have ever lived

i have never been anywhere close to the most intelligent person in my social circles over the years and married someone much smarter than me, so learning that my mere ability to e.g. make trivial inferences from simple statistical charts *on its own* put me in like the top 10th percentile of the human race freaked me the fuck out, and it just got worse from there