People value intelligence and will apply that label to themselves even if it may not be true. It's a hard thing to measure though IQ does it reasonably well. To those who have a high IQ: what is it like? Can you pick up any book, read it, and understand the gist with minimal repetition? Can you infer solid and accurate conclusions based on a small amount of evidence? Is any subject or discipline up for grabs or do you have to have a keen interest in a particular field in order to flourish? What is something you are able to do that you know is because of your intelligence -- the proverbial 1,000 pound deadlift of the brain, if you will.
There is no point to these questions other than curiosity.
I can elaborate, but I wonder how much I can say on the internet before someone starts piecing together who I am.
I'd rather not open dump my personal life, so I'll just say that my mother is not very bright, and I discovered that before I hit double digits old, so I had to take on adult responsibilities at a very young age to stop grifters from realizing they found a human version of crack with my mother who isn't smart enough to realize a gift is coming, or how to fight her way out of it.
Not only does it make you have to learn things quick, but making mistakes was costly, so I had to learn to take the correct choices, be precise, and how to spot a grift coming before it became a problem.
Like recently when we learned about that guy who is imploding Second Wind for his own gain. That's the kind of grift I'd be able to spot, having been close to a few of them and in some of them, and had to find ways of getting out of them.
Does that make me smart? No. I just know the type, and what they want, and how to shut them down before I become too entwined in their web.