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Little Deb · 02-17-2007, 06:07 PM

After taking a varety IQ tests, my score is anywhere from 110 to 120. However, my emotional health has held me back from learning to drive a car, and basically getting a job outside the fast food industry. I do think abstractly, which helps me with my photography and teaching myself to play mandolin (a very difficult choice, or so I hear!) When I was a child I was labeled a "slow learner", however in retrospect it was the teaching methods which were to blame. Hitting little girls with yardsticks, humiliating them, sceaming at them, etc. was the normal approach to education in the 1970s. Around puberty, I decided to read all the books that my "genius" older brothers read, then my grades improved. The corporal punishment laws were also changed. I was no longer rapped on the back with a stick for smiling "the wrong way". Anyway, high IQs only teach us one thing: People with the highest scores have amazing skills in knowing the correct answers to IQ tests. Social skills are a completely different animal. With all my neurons in my mighty brain, I still experience turmoil when it comes to making friends, networking, etc. I can't sell my art or even find any other musicians to play with because I have a disinterest/terror in meeting new people. In fact, I can be rather sacastic and hostile around unfamiliar people. I have suffered severe depression as a result of my own personality. And,I don't know how the rest of "you morons" think. You're the ones that work in nice offices and drive fancy cars and make friends where ever you go, no matter how old you are, etc. etc. Do you want fries with that?

02-17-2007, 06:07 PM	#2 (permalink)
Little Deb Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Portage la Prairie, Manitoba Posts: 61	mighty brain After taking a varety IQ tests, my score is anywhere from 110 to 120. However, my emotional health has held me back from learning to drive a car, and basically getting a job outside the fast food industry. I do think abstractly, which helps me with my photography and teaching myself to play mandolin (a very difficult choice, or so I hear!) When I was a child I was labeled a "slow learner", however in retrospect it was the teaching methods which were to blame. Hitting little girls with yardsticks, humiliating them, sceaming at them, etc. was the normal approach to education in the 1970s. Around puberty, I decided to read all the books that my "genius" older brothers read, then my grades improved. The corporal punishment laws were also changed. I was no longer rapped on the back with a stick for smiling "the wrong way". Anyway, high IQs only teach us one thing: People with the highest scores have amazing skills in knowing the correct answers to IQ tests. Social skills are a completely different animal. With all my neurons in my mighty brain, I still experience turmoil when it comes to making friends, networking, etc. I can't sell my art or even find any other musicians to play with because I have a disinterest/terror in meeting new people. In fact, I can be rather sacastic and hostile around unfamiliar people. I have suffered severe depression as a result of my own personality. And,I don't know how the rest of "you morons" think. You're the ones that work in nice offices and drive fancy cars and make friends where ever you go, no matter how old you are, etc. etc. Do you want fries with that?