(September 25, 2014 at 8:27 pm)MusicLovingAtheist Wrote: My parents payed for a comprehensive evaluation of my IQ, mental diagnosis, ability to pay attention, and some irrelevant school stuff.
I'm upset because my IQ is 108. No one ever did anything great with an IQ of 108. It's average. I might as well just be working in construction or something (I hate construction). Hell, I'm probably not even smart enough to be a manager at a food industry (I hate food industry).
I was also diagnosed with an 80% chance of autism. They said my eye contact was bad, my interests are limited, and tend to lecture on specific subjects but I catch myself.
Then they told me that I have trouble paying attention which I don't care about. I just feel like I can pay attention to stuff just fine if it's interesting to me, but they had me take a test where they had me click a mouse every time a letter appeared on a screen and to avoid clicking on the letter X and the test went on for like 15 minutes. It was exhausting.
So basically I'm socially awkward, dumb, have difficulty paying attention. It just makes me sad.
Incorrect on the last line, especially.
IQ is only really relevant if you allow it to be. There are many people who have high IQs that I've encountered who are socially inept and/or, dumb as a barrel full of creationists.
Be who you are. Strive to be what you want. If your drive is strong enough you'll make it.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
