Childhood How Many Here Have Been Treated Like Absolute Idiots?

[Freedomfighter]

I'm just not very smart, and I know it, so I'm rarely bothered by it. Box'o'rocks :p When I do mind is w...

I can easily communicate with different spectrums and intelligence levels. I am fairly smart, but I am sure there are many that are quite a bit smarter then me. I am sure my therapist is quite a bit smarter than me, but I usually focus on the soul of a person. If you have a person in front of you with a good soul, just a good person, then it does not matter. I have seen handicapped people with absolutely beautiful souls. I think we are blessed to be able to experience such people.

But then I have seen people too who are not smart, well that is usually not a problem, but they often go out and attempt to hurt people that are smarter then them. Weird I guess.

I love people who are just good human beings. To be around such people, regardless of their IQ or existing handicaps I consider it a privilege if I can partake in their lives, even if I just observe them: I consider that a privilege too: to just observe from afar what a good person is doing.

I do not have to be close to a person to experience or to learn from them.

 

[Keming]

My father punished me for doing well in school. Only one child in our family was allowed to be intelligent, and that wasn't me. Required to do school work "in front of him," then tormented and mocked for hours. Screamed at because I wasn't "good enough" to have friends, and there was something wrong with anyone who might befriend someone like me. Enrolled into activities, then withdrawn if I started being good at it. He would tell relatives I was "special" and make idiot jokes about me, in front of me. As an adult, he kindly offered to "let" me move back home, because I was obviously about to fail at my job and my second degree. So, no. You weren't the only kid treated like an idiot.

It is deeply saddening to learn that this happened - happens - to other people. :(

 

[Tinyflame]

I'm so sorry @Pteredacted . :cry: That kind of speech & treatment really wounds a child's (& adult's) heart. :(