(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.
Forget about IQ.
Now, that autism and attention detail... you need to find something you like to do... something marketable... and perfect your skillz on that... then you can do it for the rest of your life, be happy about it, never lose focus of your job and just be another member of society.
As for the college entrance... it seems you get a sweet deal out of it. Tons of goodies, just for being you, that other "normal" people don't get. Make the best of them!
