Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?

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Never heard of Ace but in grade 3 iq of 137 in south africa

im not satisfied honestly

still feel like im in my 20s

Yes, especially if you're going to post. The expectation is that if you're posting you've read the article.

Ace score of 8. Outside of medical things outside of my control, relatively ok I guess. I have responses to things and a perspective on life shared by almost nobody I meet, which can make things a bit harder, more so it leaves me feeling out of place because I know the world and the individuals in it in a very different way that most never will.

I was surrounded significantly by organised crime growing up, and big parts of it, and the people involved were normalised to me. Sometimes I will speak of things I encountered or endured growing up, and people become visibily uncomfortable. I often forget that it's very confronting for others, because for me, it was so normalised, it's just a part of who I am, even today.

For instance recently a group I was in asked us to recount some experiences we had at a certain time and place, and they specifically asked about crime.

Turns out that didnt mean "tell us about how you had your head ripped open in multiple places with a steering lock and were left for dead on the street" because that's a story normies can't really gel with. Recounting such stories can cause people to look at you in a very different way following it.

ACE of 8. Only child, single mother with psychiatric problems, absent dad with psychiatric problems, I was nearly killed by him at age 4, homeless twice before I was ten, no extended family to rely on at all. Mom died of Dementia at 65 when I was barely 30, and I took care of her starting when I was 25, giving up a great job in Boston.

I'm a VP of IT in a healthcare company, my third healthcare gig with this particular $12b PE investment firm. I was previously CIO twice at the others, first rising up from IT Director to Executive Director of IT, then CIO. I've been doing IT for 30+ years, and I'm damn good at it. I just cut our phone system expenses by $300k/yr, and I'm in a project to cut our EMR expense by 70% over the next 9 months. I've been a service tech, salesman, programmer, writer, author, datacenter admin, network admin, web developer, dotcom startup "CIO", and more.

I work hard, I care tremendously for my family and my employees, I love where I've managed to get, and I'm not done yet,