I had an IQ of 126 as measured when I was 13 years old with particularly high verbal ability and particularly low spatial ability (I don't remember the specific terms for the test components so these may be wrong). I graduated college at 18 years old with a 3.933 GPA from a flagship state school in a STEM major, and am now 21 and getting my PhD in a neuroscience subfield. However, I have always noticed around me a significant difference in the abilities of students to solve certain problems and to make connections to "get to the next step" in understanding. I have tried to help certain students understand problems that I myself easily understood and they were incapable despite seemingly hours of focused and determined effort. Yet still, I found problems that I myself couldn't comprehend (especially in the exercise sections of math textbooks) where I learned the prerequisite material but couldn't find a solution, but there were certainly others that could. A striking example of this was in an upper level undergraduate neuroscience class where we had to take weekly quizzes which were a sizeable portion of our grade. They were often so convoluted and difficult that people took them together to guarantee a high score. But one week, everyone got together in a study room and we still managed to get one wrong. But when I talked about it with this one girl (who was always getting the quizzes 100%, by herself) she explained why the answers were the way they were and I realized that I never would have been able to make that connection, but she did with the same amount of exposure to the material (and trust me, I studied very, very hard but so did she). <br><br>I think there is some major limiting factor in people's ability to make associations between informational components of the problems they are interfacing with, and this is mainly a function of something like intelligence. You know it when you are facing a tough problem and it requires a creative, novel solution. Some people just see deeper relationships that allow them to solve those problems and others don't see those relationships. And it's not for lack of effort.,(reply>), i have roughly a 135 iq but stopped my schooling at undergrad.  i seem to have a real problem with focus and memory so despite my ability to problem solve i struggle with certain things.  i have never tried to get diagnosed but why bother.  i often cannot recall things i just read etc.  it sucks.,(reply>), This is the kind of obvious observation, that people just don’t see and it’s frustrating to me. The elusive obvious that people cannot admit to because of the implications. People will endless say that “anyone can learn to code” for example.,(reply>), It all boils down to pattern matching at the end of the day,(reply>), Asperger's 💯,(reply>), My was 140 IQ and always felt like I was being prank by people acting stupid 😬<br>I learned to be more patient with them