3. Til High IQ is associated with various mental and immunological diseases like de...

Til High IQ is associated with various mental and immunological diseases like depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, ADHD as well as allergies, asthma, and immune disorders.

I am a 19 year old guy diagnosed with functional autism, OCD and ADD. I am asthmatic from birth although i haven't really had any problems with that lately. I did fine as a child in school and my parents and teachers used to praise me for the things i did when i was there. Really i just did the things i was told to do like read, draw, do math, and i did those things automatically without really thinking much of it. I got a bit older and had ok grades but never really cared about anything we learned in school. I do remember that as a 9-10 year old i liked to watch videos on youtube about space, especially black holes as they really fascinated me, but i never really understood the mathematical concepts of things like that because of my limited understanding at that point in time. At the age of 11-12 i started coming across complicated mathematical formulas with symbols i've never seen before like summation notation, integrals etc. To me it all just looked like weird spells, like something you would find written down in a wizard's notebook, i really didn't make effort to understand them then but i was indeed fascinated by all the pretty symbols and i frequently wrote my own without really knowing what i was doing. I started going in to puberty and started to change like all boys do at that age physically and mentally but not as dramatic as people usually do. Then one day at the age of 15 it was like someone pulled on a switch in my i brain and i transitioned, from being a clueless child really, to being overwhelmed by the realization of my existence on earth and how fragile my life is even as a human. This is a classical "being a teenager" thing but this was way to much for my brain and i couldn't stop overthinking things, constantly trying to make sense of reality even though i knew that i'd never get the satisfaction of knowing the truth about humanities biggest unanswered questions. As a result i went in to a depression and stopped functioning as a human. I dropped out of school at 16 and started to isolate myself from my family and friends just staying inside my room playing games on my computer, sleeping during the day and being awake during the night. This went on for 3 years and under that period i started getting increasingly interested in stuff like mathematics, philosophy and psychology. I soon realized that while there are many people in the world who do have these kinds of interests, it was not as common as i thought it was. This just made me feel more lonely as i could not express the full range of thought's and ideas to my friends and family. They just had a hard time thinking the way i thought. These thoughts had been constantly building up inside my mind during this dark, kinda still active, period in my life. When i went to get checked out for pontential mental disorders i did an intelligence test where i scored very high in areas like memory, speech, and i was given the mark of giftedness in logic and spatial problem solving with only 1 point away from a perfect score. I will probably very soon be taking an official iq test ,as im getting closer to being 20, just out of curiosity. I have only very recently been getting medication for my various mental disorders to get my life back on track and i do hope that i will one day be able to pursue my dream of getting a Ph.D in mathematics, and to see if my life can be part of something big or atleast have some influence in the development of human thought.

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