I dunno, I think nahkoe's observation of "handicapped" and the hard road ahead is apt. Living in a world full of dummies and not being able to do anything about it gets very grueling as time goes by.
Take this for example:
Here we have an educated Academy Award winning artist whose success has been driven by his talent for projecting an image. And yet, despite the best efforts of his staff of publists, agents, handlers and his other "people" he doesn't have the presence of mind to realize that the order of the words he has written across his fingers will be reversed when he reverses his wrists.
This is just one more burdensome weight that Pranav and I will have to labor beneath until the neurons storing this image are finally smothered by the Lewy Bodies, prions and other protein clutter.
I would just like to drive in a city where more than half the drivers on the road actually know how to drive!
That kid is amazing! I love kids like that... I was like that to a degree... I had all the presidents memorized, and I was at a higher math level than most other kids my age throughout grammar school. He'll have it tough up until 18, then he can go to a good university, be challenged by his intellectual equals, and get a good job as an engineer... Then he can come to the engineering library I work at and I can get the books he requests! Actually it did say that he lived in Milford, which makes me wonder if it's Milford, MA... just one more reason I love Massachusetts.
That kid is amazing! I love kids like that... I was like that to a degree... I had all the presidents memorized, and I was at a higher math level than most other kids my age throughout grammar school. He'll have it tough up until 18, then he can go to a good university, be challenged by his intellectual equals, and get a good job as an engineer... Then he can come to the engineering library I work at and I can get the books he requests! Actually it did say that he lived in Milford, which makes me wonder if it's Milford, MA... just one more reason I love Massachusetts.
-Bro. Alex
It doesn't end when a kid like this turns 18.
There *are* no intellectual equals for a kid who's got a one in a million IQ.
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God did it for us. Out of sheer generosity he put us in right standing with himself. A pure gift. He got us out of the mess we're in and restored us to where he always wanted us to be. And he did it by means of Jesus Christ. ~Romans 3:24 from The Message
Sure there are! About 300 of them in the US alone! (I did the math. ) (Across all ages, so not quite that many of the same age group. )
Yeah yeah, I thought about editing it to say there are few. But really, they're *so* few...
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You become free from who you have become, by becoming who you were meant to be. ~Mark from another forum I post on
God did it for us. Out of sheer generosity he put us in right standing with himself. A pure gift. He got us out of the mess we're in and restored us to where he always wanted us to be. And he did it by means of Jesus Christ. ~Romans 3:24 from The Message
This kid will probably have a really cool life being so smart. He'll be able to get a good job, make good money, have a nice house and a beautiful wife... yup, it's the good life for him. However, I am curious as to why he's still in a first grade class, and why he isn't moved up ahead a few grades. I would like to be that smart.
A lot of that is attributed to eyesight as well. Us older guys have a hard time telling if we've gotten both lowercase L's in there or not. And this is not an "excuse" - it's a reason!
Actually it did say that he lived in Milford, which makes me wonder if it's Milford, MA... just one more reason I love Massachusetts.
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