Did you ever wonder if you are intellectually disabled and don't know it?

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socal78

socal78

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This is just a random thought. I wonder if intellectually disabled people realize there is a difference between themselves and others who are "normal". On one hand, it seems cruel that they could be mentally handicapped and not know it. But on the other hand, ignorance is bliss. One of my concerns has been... what if we ARE that person and don't realize it either? Have you guys ever had this thought?

I sometimes wonder if everyone else is just playing along, being polite & nice, accommodating my needs. Not necessarily like a mentally handicapped version of The Truman Show. Maybe not that orchestrated. But just doing the "right thing". Sometimes I wonder this when other people quickly understand something I don't. I'll think - Aha! I knew there was something wrong with me. But then again, at other times, I think: "If I really was mentally challenged would I be having these thoughts at all?"
 
My thing is as long as you are happy and treated right with your current situation .. what does it matters ? Being mentally challenge actually sometimes has its own advantage (as long as you are treated right) as you are more indifferent to problems that the mentally "superior" would treat as such and thus worry and all.
 
I've noticed this about people...  The smarter you are, the more you realize that you don't know much.  The dumber you are, the more you think you know everything.

I will say this.  I have red/green colorblindness.  I can see colors.  I can see red.  I can see green...  I'm fine with the primary colors and the secondary colors.  What I can't pick up, is pretty much everything else.  Different types of green might look brown or yellow.  Lots of purples look blue.  I can't tell the difference between salmon and beige, even when they are right next to each other.  No, I can't see the numbers on those colorblind charts.

The thing is, I never knew I had colorblindness.  I thought I was just stupid and needed more practice.  When I was 15, the school nurse did the colorblind test on me and told me I had colorblindness.  I was like "bullshit, I can see colors just fine".  She was like, "no, you definitely have colorblindness."  I had no idea.  The world that I know isn't what I thought it was.  Apparently there's a lot of variation that I'm missing out on.

 
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