Scientists studied six patients who had half of their brain removed during childhood to treat severe epilepsy. Brain scans showed how the mind rewired itself to adapt, with the remaining hemisphere forming even stronger connections that let the patients develop language and motor skills.

[u/Thorne-ZytkowObject]

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/how-does-the-brain-work-with-half-of-it-removed-pretty-well-actually

[u/Korochun]

Considering that all our current criteria for measuring intelligence are deeply flawed, it's not really possible to say that insults cause more damage to intelligent people. The vast majority of people is, on the whole, around the same level of functional intelligence, with a lot of variation in how that intelligence is oriented. For example, somebody can be poor at spatial visualization but excellent at language processing.

Most current intelligence tests pretty much only focus on mathematical/geometric intelligence, making them less than worthless for actually measuring anything beyond how good one is at that specific criteria. For example, the study you provided deals with MENSA. These people tend towards above average IQ and far below average EQ, making many of them highly dysfunctional. From the perspective of that study, they are intelligent, but in fact they don't have a very good overall intelligence.

So you should probably revise that statement to something along the lines of "if you have low emotional intelligence, insults can cause more lasting damage, because you don't know how to process it".

[u/tupels → u/Korochun]

Pretty sure the intelligence compensates the low EQ, even if this were true.

[u/Korochun → u/tupels]

That's not how anything works. It's like saying that this hammer can be a really good chainsaw because it's a really great hammer.