The Sad Reality Of Low IQ People

My brother was tested at IQ of 72. The threshold for disability is 70. He has led a very difficult life. People try to cheat or deceive him at every turn. At age 61, he finally qualified for disability after decades at menial part time jobs, barely able to survive. Thank God for disability.

Need an iq of 130 to obtain a graduate degree? I’m not too sure about that.

Worst level to be it is just smart enough to actually realize you are hopelessly dumb, but not dumb enough to be unaware of how much better off you would be if you weren't...

In the Netherlands, we have special schools for people with IQ from 55 - 80. It takes five years and everyone has a personalized development plan. They learn how to sustain in society and they learn a profession, mostly as an assistant.

I (33) have a learning disability. My IQ is approx 80. I got tested twice in school. It is mainly due to the fact that my mother drunk alcohol during her pregnancy (FASD spectrum/Fetal Alcohol Syndrome) Everything is harder in my life. No matter how hard I try, I always fail. I needed to visit special ed class till 18, I never had many friends, I never had the ability to visit college or achive high education, I only work at sign holder jobs...or fast food...I also never had a girlfriend. A low intelligenc is a severe punishment for your whole life, which affects every aspect of your life negatively.

I was born and my life was over

Actually many people with high IQ decide to do "lower complexity" works, to avoid anxiety. Low estime plays a role too...

Indeed Brutal. It's like encountering the invisible wall in the Fallout map. You know it's there, but you can't see it. You try to get over it, but you simply can't. I think it's horrible to tell everyone "you are smart" when they are young. I believed it. I tried to study math and believe me, I tried and tried. For me it was pain and for the rest it was nothing. Obviously I couldn't do it, my marks where too low to get into university. I have accepted my fate but I still think about it and I have to sit down and try to compose myself. It's horrible.

A good machinist, or mechanic, that can actually diagnose a problem, and design the best solution. Is not an average person.

I teach at a community college and as it's an open access institution, and this can mean that students who were "gifted" a high school diploma are allowed to take college courses and fail and fail until their financial aid runs out OR they are put on academic probation and expelled from the college. I did have one young man who was so frustrated that he couldn't pass a remedial class I taught (it was geared to a 4th and 5th grade reading level; he was at a 1st or 2nd grade level), and he started harassing me to pass him. If I'd done that, I would have just made the next instructor's life terrible, so I didn't. Eventually, a family member created an "individual scholarship" for him where family members put money into an account so he could take courses at no cost just to keep him busy and out of everyone's hair at home. I later found out that several people had put out a restraining order against him because he couldn't adapt and accept that he couldn't do certain things. I didn't find him malicious, but just frustrated because he wanted to be "normal," but just didn't have it. He is now taking Bowling and another non-credit course. I hope he's staying busy. I have seen him at a local fast food place where his job is to deliver the bag of food to each table. He is not given any other tasks, but I'm grateful that he has some structure in his life.

There's a difference between choosing to be an idiot and actually being disabled that many get confused with, unfortunately.

They tend to lecture people on how smart they are.

The supervisor who didn't think to split the mailing list into "English" and "French" and then have the "English" and "French" envelopes and letters two different colors wasn't much more mentally gifted than the guy folding the letters.

One time I was going through a fast food drive through and some old guy was being trained on making the drinks. He couldn't fill the cup with ice correctly. It took him five tries and then the trainer ended up doing it himself. It was pretty sad. Apparently this is the 15% discussed in this video.

I’ve found there’s something really liberating about opening every conversation “just so you know, you’re dealing with somebody with a sub-100 IQ”

In jails and prisons the common denominator is low intelligence bar none.

I once knew a guy with an IQ of 160. He worked in a library putting returned books back in the right places on their shelves and told me he loves the job and finds it satisfying and fulfilling. My late mother had an IQ of 140, worked most of her life in a supermarket as a cashier and never complained. One of my brothers has an IQ of 140 and is a car mechanic. He hates the job, has change employers quite a few times and complains that the bosses are all idiots who don't understand cars.

I think more people are beginning to realize the importance of IQ in modern society. People with low IQ are smart enough to realize that they will never be able to reach the heights that high IQ people can in terms of status and money. This creates a deep resentment and anger. Nothing good comes from that. How can low IQ people live a meaningful and fulfilling life if the world around them is too complex for them to operate in?

I failed to turn off the captions about 5 times, before realizing it's the part of the video. That tells you something about my IQ.

I relate to this too much. I've gotten fired from even the most basic jobs.