Comments on: I.Q Tests

By: clairec23

clairec23 — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:59:48 +0000

Susan – If our brains switch off in front of the computer screen then it would explain a lot I use the computer way too much so my brain is probably shut off most of the time! What you said is how I feel. I think that as long as it was only an online test, I can say ah that doesn’t count but if I took the real thing…and I was stupid…there’s no going back from that! I know I sound like an eejit saying it but it does matter to me.

I have been thinking that maybe how smart I feel depends on the people I talk to. Most of the people I know don’t challenge me in any way so I get lazy but a lot of the people I’ve met online in the last few months express themselves so intelligently that I think it has a good effect on me. I don’t think texting helps either…

Antibarbie, I’d love to believe that but right now my brain feels slow and sticky! I know I can’t retain everything, I think I’m just shocked at how little I retain sometimes. I suppose we do have to concentrate on different things when we have children. More important things really. I think maybe a part of me misses learning and feels a bit useless. I love being Mammy but maybe I’m not happy JUST being Mammy. Sounds a bit selfish but there ya go

Cardiogirl, I totally get that, I’m feeling something similar at the moment. You believe that something is right for so long and when it changes it makes you question everything. Sometimes life passes by and we don’t notice the changes until it suddenly hits us and then it’s hard to cope with because it seems unexpected but really it’s been building up all along. Discovering who you really are is your personal journey and I know you are feeling like it’s your burden too but it doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing. You can mold yourself into the person you want to be rather than the person you are supposed to be.

By: AntiBarbie

AntiBarbie — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:38:39 +0000

I don’t think you are stupider at all Claire. As we stop studying things like math and move on to a different phase in our lives, there is much we aren’t going to retain because it’s of little use to us out there in the real world and that information ends up getting shoved into the back of the closets of our minds.

You aren’t stupid, you just have things going on in your life that are more important to your daily life that take the foreground now that your mind isn’t being crammed full of knowledge on a daily basis.

Raising young children takes a lot of our energy and brain power. So much so that our brains actually change in order to better suit the undertaking when a woman gives birth for the first time. That’s got to tell you something

By: cardiogirl

cardiogirl — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:25:41 +0000

Claire I would like to be flippant and witty.

But right now I am seriously struggling with your last question: how did you cope when you realized that the person you believed you still were, was no longer looking back at you in the mirror?

I really don’t know who I am anymore. So much is going on and I don’t know who the woman is looking back at me in the mirror. And I don’t know where the woman I thought I was went.

I am in a strange limbo, trying to figure out who I was and I who I might become. A large part of me has been crushed. And I don’t know what, if anything at all, will rise from the ashes.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:00:58 +0000

Claire, the online tests are POOP, believe me.

For one thing, I think our brains switch off when parked in front of a computer screen. It’s supposed to entertain and inform us, and our brains know that…so they switch off.

Several years back I did just what you did, and took an online IQ test: it was a mid-life crisis or something, I don’t know (I have a lot of those), and since I was always the “smarty sister”, what was I now if not smart?. I was so upset by the bad result online, that I booked in for a Mensa test to know the ‘official’ score—you have to use pencil and paper for those, in a classroom, supervised. And what do you know, in the RIGHT environment for thinking, the thinky-thing in my head came through, and I scored better. MUCH better. (so much better they now bill me for membership–so go take the test!)

And no more online IQ tests. That’s only your intelligence while your brain is switched OFF. (Now it looks better, eh?)

Seriously, I think they design them to give you a bad IQ score simply so they can sell you ‘how to be smarter’ stuff in their ads.

By: clairec23

clairec23 — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:57:04 +0000

Elle! You didn’t really think that! It happens no matter what age you have children at…unfortunately. It sucks but apparently we all have to live with it! At least we have an excuse for our stupidity…men don’t.

By: Elle

Elle — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:53:53 +0000

I find this post very comforting. You see, when I had Max, I was way elderly (three months out of forty… and I just thought I’d triggered Alzheimer’s onset by waiting too long to have kids. Yay. I am certainly not particularly glad that the lot of us are dumb and dumber, but at least I’m not in the soup alone. So, uh, I had some intelligent remark to make, but it will have to wait until after second grade homework. Or not.

By: clairec23

clairec23 — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:38:47 +0000

lmao @ mel. I sometimes wonder if I ever did have a firm belly in the first place, I can’t remember but I’m sure my bellybutton looked normal at some stage Here’s hoping the brain cell replacement works out…

Poor guilty is probably running away screaming in horror right now

By: melbs1969

melbs1969 — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:24:28 +0000

i did one of those, a while back…scored pretty high, which i thought was ridiculous. because, i have not one single brain cell left. after pushing out kids…all of the cells spontaneously exploded, never to be regenerated again.
the thing i lost…perky boobs and a firm tummy…i lost those with the brain cells. maybe, one day…i’ll have them surgically reversed. and, maybe there will be some big scientific advancement to replace brain cells. until then, i’ll just sit and drool, while contemplating my navel…if i can find it under my drooping boobs and fat roll

By: clairec23

clairec23 — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:18:41 +0000

Blue, I always lose weight after I get pregnant, at first I thought it was because of morning sickness but I had mild morning sickness during my second pregnancy so I think it was just something hormonal. My body just changes shape within the first few weeks. Mr. Claire did one night’s work as a favour in Ms. Selfridge before a huge sale and bought me a big plastic sack thingy full of clothes. They all fit me perfectly, some were even too big (even though I had been eating a lot) and it hit me that I must be pregnant and I was

Don’t talk to me about my boobs. I did have one thing apart from my IQ going for me, boobs! Then I breastfeed…bye bye nice boobs…*sigh*

hehe Guilty, tough shit, apparently it happens to all of us! I would rather my children having brains than me but it would be nice if they left mama a little sometin’ sometin’ behind…

By: Guilty Secret

Guilty Secret — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:09:26 +0000

He he this made me laugh:

In fairness, I did a free one online so it doesn’t really count but I was disgusted surprised by the results. I am stupider!!! I mean, more stupid….or something…

But most of all this post just scared me… I don’t want to give my babies my brains!