My IQ is normal, 120. My smarts are in language and artistic genres. I felt different growing up because I was thinking of adult things, creative ideas, books, thinking deeper thoughts than my peers who were concerned with gossip, clothes, fads, and stuff I thought was silly and superfluous to life's meaning. But that's because I'm an artist, not gifted. I found it pretty daunting to have a kid with one of 153 and argued like a trial lawyer at 6.