One Among The Ruins

As if you have to ask...Yes. Yes, they are dumb.

I feel like I lost a few IQ points reading through this. It is funny though. Take a look.

I almost did not answer this because I believe it to be a joke. You already unfortunately know that she is Clinically Mentally Retarded.

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IQ is about many things, but it doesn't begin to define the person or the person's abilities or inabilities. You need to look at the whole person and all the individual aspects of that person's gifts and talents rather than a number.

Yes. Yes, it does. She will never fly a plane or be a doctor. Actually this reminds me of a terrifying story by Nick Cole called "Safe Space Suit". I highly recommend Cole as an author and this story in particular. 

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Often throughout my life, I have commented and heard comments that, let's say, a certain dog is "really intelligent."  (And here is where I always have to qualify: I'm not comparing my uncle or any other retarded person to a dog.  Abstraction, people, abstraction.)   We all know that a dog's ability to think does not reach ours; but nevertheless, we recognize "intelligence" from an assumed, relative starting point.

IQ is just a social construct, pal. Who's to say that guy over there in the corner eating dirt isn't going to cure cancer...