'I am tired of everything being a struggle. People who don't have low IQ take their common sense for granted. They don't go through every day exhausted.'
"I Wish I Could Be Normal": People With Low IQs Are Opening Up About Their Deepest Hardships In Life, And It's Absolutely Gut-Wrenching
"I have an IQ of around 86, which is pretty poor. I have a learning disability when it comes to math especially. I suffered a lot of abuse and discrimination from teachers who knew I had a disability but didn't offer me any help. They separated me from the other kids . This was around 1989–1990. I find it hard to believe there weren't programs to help kids like me back then.""I also didn't get any help in high school , nothing, so that was bad timing, too.
"I was a fairly serious reader before my brain injury. I kept up with the books I read, and in two or three years, I finished over one hundred books. Now reading is not easy and certainly not fun. I lose focus with audiobooks. I respond better to movies or TV. Listening to music has lost its charm for me.
"I cannot get interested in anything. My head is completely empty all day. I have no personality, there's nothing I like. Even when I try to do things, I cannot understand them completely. I'm good at nothing, even in video games, I'm the lowest performer. I dropped out of school in the eighth grade because the work was too hard for me and socializing was too hard and stressful, and I haven't talked to anyone since then.
"After several years doing that, I found myself a less demanding job. I am now an office manager making the same money. I am not anxious anymore. I don't have to put extra hours in to learn new stuff or meet deadlines. "And then I find it hard to listen to people when they want me to do something for them. Sometimes I need 10 times repetition or I need a recorder to secretly listen to it. This fact made me never daring to do a paid job except help for other students until now because I'm afraid to not be able to grasp what the boss could want from me.
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The low-smell, low-stress fish recipe of your dreamsJoe Nguyen is a digital strategist for The Denver Post. Previously he was the online prep sports editor. Prior to that, he covered Adams County and Aurora in the YourHub section. He has previously covered Colorado’s Asian-American communities as editor for Asian Avenue magazine and AsiaXpress.com.
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