The thing about IQ is really interesting. I have met rather intellgent people who were a bit slow. I don't think it has much to do with the fear of not being capable, I think it's because society looks down at the mentally challenged. I know I'm not but I am still bombared with fear that I am at the same time and it scares and overwhelms me. It's something I think about because I just think "imagine if people knew I was just retarded". Even if you know it's not a bad thing to not be brilliant, society puts such an emphasis on being smart that the idea of being "proven" to not be that (even if an IQ doesn't completely behold the future) is devastating.
I think it's just major self esteem issues and an inability to deal with my past that makes me feel as such but I was wondering if anyone else ever felt this was or was called mentally retarded despite not being so. I used to think that the non retarded would never be mistakened for being slow so I don't know. It was just really terrible to be accused of that.
I feel slow whenever I'm in a math class or when I do poorly on an exam.I think that it's normal to have self depricating thoughts.If you really were mentally disabled you wouldn't have been able to formulate your question.
Is it normal that sometimes I feel mentally retarded?
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The thing about IQ is really interesting. I have met rather intellgent people who were a bit slow. I don't think it has much to do with the fear of not being capable, I think it's because society looks down at the mentally challenged. I know I'm not but I am still bombared with fear that I am at the same time and it scares and overwhelms me. It's something I think about because I just think "imagine if people knew I was just retarded". Even if you know it's not a bad thing to not be brilliant, society puts such an emphasis on being smart that the idea of being "proven" to not be that (even if an IQ doesn't completely behold the future) is devastating.
I think it's just major self esteem issues and an inability to deal with my past that makes me feel as such but I was wondering if anyone else ever felt this was or was called mentally retarded despite not being so. I used to think that the non retarded would never be mistakened for being slow so I don't know. It was just really terrible to be accused of that.
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I feel slow whenever I'm in a math class or when I do poorly on an exam.I think that it's normal to have self depricating thoughts.If you really were mentally disabled you wouldn't have been able to formulate your question.