Reply #89: For me it was one of the things that made life

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eh interesting, or challenging.

In grade school there was a small group of us who were let out of classes to be studied by someone interested in "gifted children."

I remember feeling guilty cause it was better than being in class and we got to get out to the playground earlier and longer.

It was interesting to see who the others were who got picked. The majority were from my own "accelerated" class.

Later on in life, I used to have a negative feeling towards Mensa, the snob factor was what I feared. Then I met some interesting and nice people who belonged to Mensa. So I became active in it for a while.

Haven't done anything with them in a while now.

In my family of origin there was rampant narcissism, so I'm on the look out for signs of the destructive snobbery and grandiosity in myself that I was around so much for so long.