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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Let's be honest, most of us think we're in the blue zone, when we are probably in the red zone

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, people in the red zone think they're in the green zone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Of of the lessons of the pandemic times!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And everyone believing they're in the blue zone is statistically speaking very likely in the yellow zone.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometimes we wish that our impostors syndrome was true

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I just wish I didn't know that whatever is true none of it matters anyway.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had to do an official test along with a psychological examination for reasons when I was almost 18 years old, so I know at some point I was in the blue zone or above, but it doesn't really fucking matter when you have autism, a mood disorder and have been neglected by your parents so you never learned things like determination or frustration tolerance. I think I shaved a solid 10 IQ points off anyway from almost a decade of substance abuse issues, so now I'm just autistic and dysfunctional without the gifted part.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Serious question: what kind of drug abuse does it take to shave off 10 IQ points? I've done my fair share and would prefer not to have that happen to me - if it hasn't already.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A ton of amphetamines and other stimulant research chemicals and a fuckton of alcohol. I think probably the latter is mostly to blame.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most likely most of us would be in the yellow zone

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Look at the mathematician here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In order to bother with something like lemmy, you're probably above average intelligence (specifically to do with computers)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You can be good with computers but dumb everywhere else, plenty of people like that exist

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

How many of us were put in the blue zone because we liked The Magic School Bus and turned up to second grade already knowing what an esophagus is?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm cleanly in the green 👑

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Excellent at being below average