Signs of a Low IQ
You know you may have a low IQ when people feel the need to talk to you or handle you on toddler level or coddle you even after well grown. When basic understanding functionality isn’t there, there is probably something missing somewhere mentally. It’s not a compliment when people patronize or enable grown people in questionable behavior that are like spoiled children throwing a pouting fit. American Indigenous have a name for it’s called “The Broken Cord Syndrome.” Basically not much if anything going on upstairs to put it bluntly.
Those of us with disabilities such as solely slight hearing impairment (but normal if not elevated IQ and cognition mostly based on having to carry keen senses) receive this said reaction from people at times meanwhile it’s like a friend with cerebral palsy once said of that patronizing communicational language you’re pretty much like shaking your head “Yes” slowly in exaggerated sarcastic movement while purposely making your eyes bulge replying slowly and deliberately “Yeah… f__ … you” because there isn’t anything malfunctioning with our mental capacities just hearing, for some disabled individuals eye sight, for some muscle control, etc basically any condition that does not affect cognitive operation. Either way, it’s never a compliment or a supportive act to be patronized, habitually catered to like a 5 or 12 year old into adulthood nor to act like one either for whatever reason is thought to be justified. It’s called enablement and it’s really cringeworthy when people have grown up into a perpetual child, no whole person disabled or not wants to go through life like that with no dignity or equality because one never really matures like so and thus bubbled up from the outside real world like Peter Pan the rest of a pseudo piteous existence. That’s why some parents of disabled children can be quite hard on them sometimes because they want to prepare them for the real world. I don’t necessarily always agree with it depending on the circumstances and context however on the other hand overprotecting and placing out 0 bounds etc isn’t beneficial either. There has to be a balance otherwise you will have one dysfunctional adult who can’t function in real life, interact with people properly, or even on a basic cognitive level on not only your hands but the world has to deal with what poor parenting failed to do have they some kind of disability, cognitive impairment, or not. 🤷🏽♀️
