if you observed it before, she is really bad at noticing patterns in things and coming to conclusions that others have an easy time coming to, why do you think might be the cause of this mental underperformance? is It just the drugs or is she really dumb.
Oh okay so I went to a school for gifted kids that rarely accepts new entries, and only had a graduating class of 4 people because my IQ is low?
I went through a series of special tests. At first I was called to the office on a random Tuesday morning, I thought I was in trouble. They had me instead take a strange test that seemed to be testing my cognitive reasoning skills and speed more so than a propensity for anything else. The room was quiet and no one told me what the test was for, they judt said I had been selected to do testing and only a few students from each grade get selected.
I was selected based on I guess my GPA performance as well as a few tests that were administered to all students in the grade through out the first semester. We were told it was a curriculum success assessment of sorts. But I knew better because the tests were abstract. One of them had me drawing something, another listing all the strange things you can create out of a few random house hold objects.
So anyway I took the test in front of a computer, and then I got called back in again shortly after that, and this time there were fewer students in the room. I glanced at a woman watching us and her clipboard had ten names, one of them was mine. I realized they were wittling us down. I thought maybe there was a competition so I tried to be as fast as possible. It was fun like a game.
And after one more test I was told that myself and two others had scored the highest on these series of tests in all areas, and were talked to about entering gifted programs outside this school, as they don’t think that the education they offered here would be enough for us.
And I thought no shit, I could of told you that. I’d been bored since, always. By school. They tried moving me up a grade and, all honors and AP classes and, taking higher level things but, nothing sufficed to cure the insane boredom I felt with the educational system.
I submitted an application to a gifted school they recommended for me and I was really happy to leave where I was at so, I agreed for testing and interview. They went over awards I had won and involvements I had going on as well as just talking about my life and my thoughts. They asked me strange theoretical questions that required quick problem solving but were open ended. No multiple choice and it was more like a conversation. At the end of every answer there was, “why.”
And someone rapidly recording what I said with pen and paper, jotting down notes about our conversations and, looking over all my submitted test scores.
And then they had me take more tests (hurray)
that were like word problems that turned into equations or vs, and other strange problem solving. As well as a lot of stuff that is similar to the structure of an SAT but the questions were definitely more challenging and even designed to trick you. There was also far more open ended questions and written portions, which I enjoyed.
Then I was accepted into the school and it was fun. We basically just, had a conversation all day long about various topics in history, politics and current events going on in the world. Problem solving problems in the world, pertaining to social problems or the environment, or engineering type of solutions. A lot of creativity was embraced and we bounced off of each other.
each of us already had our own areas of expertise in a way, one was going to be an author, the other a historian, the other a politician, and myself being more of a science perspective on things. So we brought new information to the table to talk about amongst ourselves, the author was always reciting and referencing literary works and quoting authors, etc.
There was one girl in the grade below me who was a math wizard. So it was a wide array of gifts.
We went over at the beginning of the year what areas we were gifted in and how we wanted the structure of the class to be. Did we want the lights off? Did we want to go outside on wednesdays? What order should we have. Do we want tests or projects, do we prefer to work alone? Read in class, or at home.
Most of had iadetic or photographic memories, there was a boy not in my grade who was extremely musically gifted and they allowed him to focus on that. His primary goal was entering a conservatory.
It was just a more intense style of learning where we’re not waiting for anyone to get it or learn it or catch up but rather we just instantly got it and could talk about it and move forward with it, implementing the j formation and drawing inference between all of it to create solutions to problems creatively.
It was preparing us and our strengths for the real world as they would be exercised in our actual lives, and who we would become in todays world.
Oh okay so I went to a school for gifted kids that rarely accepts new entries, and only had a graduating class of 4 people because my IQ is low?
There's many people who can do well in some areas while failing in others, like students who get straight A's but can't seem to tell a lick of social convention. 
It was preparing us and our strengths for the real world as they would be exercised in our actual lives, and who we would become in todays world.
And yet...
Oh okay so I went to a school for gifted kids that rarely accepts new entries, and only had a graduating class of 4 people because my IQ is low?
There's many people who can do well in some areas while failing in others, like students who get straight A's but can't seem to tell a lick of social convention.
Awesome - im a full spectrum of dumb lol
Not even Interpersonal, Musical, or Existential?
I suppose those would be my stronger ones.
It's more of a balancing act anyway. If you had all of it, none of it would stand out and your self-education would be that much less focused on single points.
To me, if I were to compare opposite extremes, a savant is more impressive than a generalist, but savants tend to have heavy flaws in many areas to make up for their hyperfocused talent in one while the generalist is more unremarkable, a safe dabbler who can't reach too far in any one area.
By having a lacking, it forces the stronger areas to pick up the slack. Without weaknesses there'd be no reason to turn towards your strengths, which means less training in said strengths overall.
