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How relatable is stratefied intelligence? Left-Brain vs Right-Brain etc?

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I’m bipolar, potentially many other things including PDD-NOS. I have stratefied intelligence. My verbal is way higher than spatial. FYI both math and writing are leftbrain verbal intelligence because math is the language of science and numbers are the letters.

Apart from art, schools don’t handle much spatial intelligence. It’s those lil block designs. I excelled in school playing to my strenghs with a social science major heavy on essays. My mom is a former English teacher and taught me how to write when she was getting her degree and I was in middle school. It gabe me a leg up. I didn’t have to try hard.

I did well as a comedian for 3-4yrs in college. Made a tiny bit of money. If I’m not awkward I come across as clever. People have told me I’m smart and I don’t feel it. I did some professional writing and journalism but life is hard. I have been doing basic labor mostly since college. I’ve also done panels educating professors on mental health and published two books. Mostly for my own enjoyment.

I have had a lot of ASD friends and this seems rather common among them. A girl I got to know was someone I thought I was smarter than until I saw her writing. Also my favorite ex was borderline snd ASD and the only gf I thought was smarter than me in intellectual terms. I and that ex have drug problems unless she’s better now.

So how relatable is this?

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