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[quote=Anonymous]I'm pretty sure I posted about this before, but I had a friend growing up who had a low IQ. This was in the 1980s, so there were probably some other learning disabilities, too, but I'm not sure they were identified. I know about the low IQ part because our moms were friends, too. My mom is a nurse and I remember her mom telling my mom about it over coffee while my friend and I were supposed to be playing. 
Anyway, my friend struggled a lot academically and was in remedial services at school. She got bullied by a particular group of girls who weren't nice to a lot of people, but they definitely targeted her. She was very kind and I enjoyed going to movies and rollerskating and stuff like that with her, but it was hard for her to play board games and she had a lot of trouble reading, so we didn't talk much about books or magazines or anything. We didn't have the kind of deep, intense conversations a lot of tween/teen girls have, but like I said, play dates were fun. Her parents were very nice and her mom was involved with Girl Scouts and pretty much any activity her daughter wanted to do. I also remember seeing both parents around school a lot, meeting with the teachers and counselor. It was fairly unusual for dads to show up for meetings like that back in those days, so I guess that's why I remember it. If I had to guess, her parents' involvement made a lot of difference in her getting as many special services as she did. Her family eventually moved across the country for the dad's job and we lost touch, although we have mutual friends on FB. It looks like she got her degree from a small state college and is now married with kids. She runs a small business (not MLM, thankfully!), and looks happy. Compared to some of the kids I grew up with who were not low IQ, I would say this is a good outcome.

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