r/lowIQpeople2

Asking this as a higher iq person who genuinely wants to understand.

i was wondering if any of you have managed to learn a new language with a low iq
i’ve always wanted to learn a new language, but i never put any effort but i was wondering if my low intellect could also be a reason
and if you speak multiple languages how difficult was the process?

When I say inevitable, I mean being unemployed or underemployed or getting a job that one doesn't want or that doesn't require college-level skills and knowledge. Most young adults, at least in Western countries like the US, are told to go to college and go forward in life (or else you're a lazy bum or working a low-level job). Although I would say that there's value in being aware of things from college classes, I would also say that college is sometimes meant more for one's intellectual enrichment and less so for being prepared for a specific, lucrative job. In fact, it's well-known that a lot of white-collar jobs demand at least one year of experience relevant to the field at hand, amongst other requirements like professional references.

Now, given that college is an institution that places a lot of responsibility onto one's hands (e.g., being responsible for picking classes, paying tuition and fees, doing administrative actions like withdrawing or dropping courses by the deadline), people can argue that it's a choice and there's no guarantee of a proportional reward for one's effort and money. I'm just complaining that for people who are less cognitively endowed/less capable, college may be a waste of one's precious resources like time and money. Rant over.

During the past couple of years, I have noticed people in my life that I regularly interacted with comment that I can barely take care of myself. On some levels, that is true (e.g., my parents still pay for my purchases in my late 20's, but I am also a first-generation Asian-American, so that might make sense culturally-speaking). However, I think those acquaintances were specifically saying that I'm not fully functional (partially due to a relatively low IQ and partially due to other unfortunate issues due to genetic bad luck) and thus my personal life gets neglected and disorganized.

If people living with a relatively low IQ (or with any other handicap/impairment/disability) really can't fully take care of themselves and their well-being, then it is reasonable to conclude that being able to take care of others (my parents are very old and I still have some desire to do an Allied Health Profession to become a healer) is beyond one's capacity. Anyways, I wonder if anyone here has received any similar remarks, and if so, what do you make of such comments? Thanks and take care.

We use "IQ", but it's just a test, and tests can lie. I want something more true. I don't like "intelligence" because it's long. I also don't know the difference between "intelligence" and "intellect", even after searching. What shorter can we use instead?

I just hate it. I can’t even describe in detail why I hate it. I hate it. It’s like being humiliated all the time with no breaks. Sometimes I consider suicide over being stupid.

Dealing with a low IQ is bad because it typically leads to failure in academics or other serious responsibilities. In addition, having a low IQ means one is always living in the shadow of someone more cognitively endowed than one is. For instance, growing up, my parents, understandably, compared me with my cousins and other young people. I have cousins who are physicians, dentists, pharmacists, and so on and so forth. To be clear, such academic and professional success is not evenly distributed across the family, as some cousins have mental health issues like autism while others are just so-so in their accomplishments.

Now, I'm happy and glad that the successful cousins were able to do well in schooling and then in the workforce and made a good living off of their hard work and dedication. It just sucks that I never had the possibility to do well in say a STEM major or a pre-health track due to my limited cognitive capabilities. Forever living in the shadow of more skilled, "normal" people is terrible because it makes me think about how I'll always be "lesser" than others (on the bright side, this state of life teaches me to be humble I guess). Like if life has a lot of competition in it, and one is always losing in this regard, then life feels like a humiliation ritual and a cosmic-level joke against one. Rant over.