When I was tested at the age of 4 or 5, I scored very very high. I skipped kindergarden and was able to do multiplication problems out to 9x9 by first grade. But the school district of Camas WA, felt that my being half blind was a distraction to the other kids. They classified it as a illness and made my life hell. My parents were forced to send me to the Vancouver Blind School for my second grade year. I had only a first grade reading and writing skill, and found brail reading to be borning. This lack of proper education regarding my reading has haunted me ever since. Hense my horrid spelling and grammer skills. (Hey nobody is perfect.
) I Lasted at the Blind School for a year before being bumped back into the public school system. It would seem that I was so far ahead of my classmates at the blind school, and was I was litterly board to tears. The could not figure why I was attending the school when my IQ was so high. (Hey I was a five or six year old kid at the time, all I wanted to do was play with my friends and make forts in the rec-room.
And we made some dandy arse forts too.
I always found public school to be borning, and if not for evil people, I would have gone on to higher education and perhaps be a better person than I am now. But life is what life is, and Gods will has been done, I have become far less than I was, and there really is nothing I can do about it except grin and bear it.
I guess the same is true for any person in life.
We just have to take it as it comes and try to survive it without loosing our sense of humor.
I am a firm believer that if you do not use your mind, it weakens like with any musle and your IQ, your real IQ, suffors.
So use that IQ.
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