I have suicidal thoughts nearly every day because I'm low IQ. It takes me a long time to process concepts, and even when I do it's futile because I'll forget it a few days later. All of my dreams and goals and ambitions are permanently locked away because of some genetics I cannot control that were decided for me before I was born. It's unfair. It makes me intensely angry and depressed. I loathe the fact that I'm destined for menial work for the rest of my life. I've wasted so much time already. This is a genuine cry for help but I'm lost. What am I supposed to do? What CAN I do?
>>34067190For one thing you can stop feeling sorry for yourself, that won't help you. You can feel shit about it sure but don't go thinking you're fucked or helpless, that's ironically how you become helpless by insisting on it.What you do is accept your limitations and then work with what you got. If shit takes longer for you to process, so be it. Let it take longer to process. Does it really matter if takes you 10 days of processing vs another man's 1 hour of processing? It just means you will take longer to achieve shit but so long as you get there, it's the same outcome as the man who processes shut quicker. So what's the big deal?
>>34067211Thank you for the reply. I appreciate it. It's nice to have someone to talk to. >For one thing you can stop feeling sorry for yourself, that won't help you. You can feel shit about it sure but don't go thinking you're fucked or helpless, that's ironically how you become helpless by insisting on it.I think you're right. It's just extremely discouraging when people shit on me for being slow, or when people get frustrated with me. I am objectively a burden to those around me, but I desperately wish that I wasn't one. >Does it really matter if takes you 10 days of processing vs another man's 1 hour of processing? It just means you will take longer to achieve shit but so long as you get there, it's the same outcome as the man who processes shut quicker. So what's the big deal?It's like trying to swim with no arms or climb Everest with no legs. Technically possible, sure, but extraordinarily difficult. You have to expend so much more time and effort just to be average, and being above average (or even excellent) is almost entirely out of reach, all the while watching everyone else easily passing by. Going to college is out of the question, same with getting any decent job. I think I'd rather die than spend 40 years scrubbing toilets and greeting people at walmart.
>>34067190Worked with a guy on a farm who was clinically retarded. Could barely write his own name or do basic math.He would work 12 hours in the field and then work a full shift in a box factory at night. Any free time he got, he would drive to the beach with his wife and go for walks by the ocean.Broke down crying once and told us all to stay in school to not end up like him. If you can accept the reality of labor, it doesn't seem like a bad life.You can read and write and use a computer, so that puts you ahead of millions of actual low IQ people who can't tie their shoes or wipe their own ass.Find something with a union and decent benefits and make your peace with your job title never impressing anyone.Most people hate their careers anyway. Build a life and identity outside of work and what you do on the clock will matter a lot less.
>>34067190I am the whitest most neurotypical 120+iq 6'3 individual on this planet, ama.My A4 Tarzan mindset is at this threads disposal.
>>34067316>Thank you for the reply. I appreciate it. It's nice to have someone to talk to.No problem brotha, thanks for talking as well>It's just extremely discouraging when people shit on me for being slow, or when people get frustrated with me. I am objectively a burden to those around me, but I desperately wish that I wasn't one.Double check whether or not its because you’re ‘slow’ or, too fast. I got shit on for being too fast, way too fast that my focus couldn’t stay still. On the inside my mind is fast and non-stop. On the outside, im getting nothing done due to constant distractions from my own mind, i look like a zoned out idiot who takes forever to see something to completion. I have adhd.>It's like trying to swim with no arms or climb Everest with no legs. Technically possible, sure, but extraordinarily difficult. You have to expend so much more time and effort just to be average, and being above average (or even excellent) is almost entirely out of reach, all the while watching everyone else easily passing by. Going to college is out of the question, same with getting any decent job. I think I'd rather die than spend 40 years scrubbing toilets and greeting people at walmart.I believe you. My suggestion is to try and stop expecting your mind to be doing the work. Remember, you have a body. Try thinking with your body and not your mind. Remember, the human stomach has 500,000,000 nerve cells. The second ‘smartest’ organ in your body besides the brain. Thinking with your gut is called ‘instinct’. So if your mind is fucked or slow or scattered, dont panic. Instinct can compensate. That means you will learn by doing things instead of thinking things. Instead of using your mind to know 2 + 2 =4, take two physical objects and place them next to two others and there you have 4. You got the same answer using physical space instead of mental space.point is you can use the real physical world and your body to be your second ‘brain’
