I was a highly gifted child. I could read at age 3 and was doing high school math starting at 6, although I was EXTREMELY shy. My parents tried as much as they could to foster my giftedness, and I was in a special program at my public school.
I remember my mother telling me a few years back that my IQ was around 140 or 150 as a child. Now, at 22 years old, when I test it, it only comes out to around 116. I feel terrible, like my life has been wasted. My whole life I have felt different than everyone else, and that still hasn't changed. It's really interfered with the quality of my life. Yet intelligence was always the one thing I had, the one thing that made me feel a little better. Now, I don't even have that.
Anyway, my question is: is it possible for one's IQ score to decrease over a lifetime? Is this a common happening? Anyone else in the same situation? I feel so alone.
2007-03-13
20:35:55
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