Do you know any low IQ people?
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Anonymous
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Yes. They are very different, because they are all different people. Extroverted, introverted, friendly, grumpy, artistic, athletic, or just homebodies.
If I were to identify anything that is a somewhat consistent quality across the group, it would be more of an emphasis on concrete thinking. Abstraction doesn't seem to hold as much appeal, or so it seems. |
Anonymous
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Define "low IQ."
My cousin was deprived of oxygen during birth, in a case of clear physician malpractice, and as a result has a full-scale IQ probably in the 60s. He lives in a group home and holds down a job at a plant nursery. Luckily, he has found someone to love and is married to a young woman with Down's Syndrome. They live together in the group home. Personality-wise, he is very outgoing and friendly. He has a remarkable memory for minute details of things that happened a long time ago, but can only hold down a conversation at an extremely basic level. He engages in rocking behavior and hand flapping--typical of people with his particular needs. |
Anonymous
| I absolutely work with people who I highly suspect have low IQ. So in my experience, they can be incompetent at their job if their job requires more complex analysis or project planning. |
Anonymous
No. We really do. We work with ARC. They are the people who manage the coffee stations on each floor, they clean the offices when a new employee leaves/starts, they deliver mail, they deliver food and drinks for meetings, they prep and clean conference rooms, they man the mail room desk sometimes, etc. |
Anonymous
Wow, that's interesting! And pretty great! |
Anonymous
| My dad and maybe mom but he is clever in some ways. I hated school as a kid bullied and such hardly went and got put in special ed bc i was failing so many classes for not going still tested at college level in math and english though. When they tested me the genius counselors decided to put me out of special ed.dropped out at 16 got ged jr college then bachelors and masters. Feel i am not ambitious enough though. |
Anonymous
You should be more ambitious about improving your written grammar. |
Anonymous
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He’s lovely, and kind, and has been a wonderful friend for 20 years.
He would never think to start a thread like this. He tries hard, works hard, and gives his all. I’d rather know him than you. |
Anonymous
I finshed school long ago. What do I care if some snotty snobby egomaniacs on an anon forum want to be anal about grammar? |
Anonymous
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You mean, my son who has a diagnosis of ID?
Yeah- I know him. What’s your next question/stereotype/bias/assumption? |
Anonymous
| The is an interesting documentary called Intelligent Lives, that discusses IQ testing for folks with developmental disabilities, and how it doesn't work/ accurately depict a persons abilities. I highly recommend! |
Anonymous
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Are talking low IQ as in stupid or low IQ as in non-neurotypical?
Because I know both. The low IQ stupid person grew up an only child of wealthy parents who just threw money in the face of her problems. She was bad at school so they got her tutors... to do her work. She failed tests so they gave the private school money for this or that upgrade and she passed. She got into her father's alma mater and majored in the easiest degree possible. If you're playing a game of pop culture/entertainment trivia, you want her on your team because she can list every little detail about every Kardashian and every celeb. I've tried to explain your/you're to her so many times that I've given up and just sigh when I get texts that say things like "your are..." because she took me saying "you're is a combination of you and are" to mean squish it all together. She's fun to be around. Her biggest problem is always something shopping related. She's the human version of your favorite lowbrow TV show or movie. Plus, she bolsters your ego because she always saying things like, "OMG, you are so frickin' smart!" when you solve easy, normal people problems... like using the car key to open her door when the fob battery died. My cousin in NNT and he's so wildly different from my low IQ, stupid friend. Hes a very good worker, but gets hyper-focused on whatever he is doing, so he's a terrible multi-tasker. He worked for a summer at my mom's office and was given the task of laminating these little cards. A normal person, after realizing they hadn't been given a set number to laminate, would ask how many. He just kept going until he'd used up all 2,000 laminating sleeves and then go distressed that the sleeves had run out before the little cards. Because of his ability to hyper-focus on the ask at hand, he has an eidetic memory, but he never really learns what he can remember. He can study a page in a math book and replicate it perfectly but have no idea what any of it means. If you write one problem from that page on the board, he'll remember it from that page and write the answer, but have no idea the steps to get the answer. Intellectually and emotionally, he's the same age as a 14-16 year old, according to my aunt. But according to some IQ tests he's taken, he's off the charts because again, he can remember it if he's read it in the past. |
Anonymous
Strange. I know many high IQ people that are “stupid”. Rarely have I found stupidity to merely be a function of IQ (or perceived IQ) |
Anonymous
You don't have to go to school to improve your grammar. And I did not say that to be a snob or anal. I said it because if you want to communicate via written word rather than spoken, people will be more likely to "listen" if your writing is clear. You have a lot of run-on sentences, and disjointed sentences. You could probably just proof-read what you write to spot the areas that need to be fixed. |
Anonymous
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In college I worked at a restaurant that partnered with something like ARC, as referenced by a PP, so we had a number of low IQ people there at any given time. Without knowing for sure, I would say that they were in the intellectual disability range, maybe upper 60's- lower 70s IQ.
I'm not sure if you are looking for stories about people who "aren't smart" or people with intellectual disabilities. At any rate, the low IQ folks were fine. On average, they did a decent job. A couple of them were lazy but it's not like they were more lazy than the average co-worker at a restaurant. I also volunteered briefly at a facility for really intellectually impaired people but their average IQ was lower, I think, than you probably mean. |