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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.            [/quote]

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)[/quote]

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