No MC - You are anything but stupid.

I so agree with the above.

There are so many forms of intelligence: academic, social, emotional etc. Standard IQ testing is a crock as it is based on the person being tested as being an adult white, middle aged, middle class, American male and there are not many people who actually have the same set of educational, social, cultural and community experiences as that. It is standard testing skewed to one small sub set of human experience and the results cannot therefore be trusted. Trust me - I can test up to 160 on online tests and t has a lot to do with age and broad problem solving experience which can be obtained through time, repetition, experience, workplace etc and if you practice these types of questions you can improve out of sight which means nothing about your level of intelligence. Imagine some of the test questions you've seen being asked of a street kid in India who has never seen the inside of a classroom, been inside a car, seen a map or knows what a cookie is. The fact they can't understand the questions does not mean they are stupid - the questions do not reflect their life experience.

This I what most educational systems do - they do not teach how to think, problem solve, research and look for answers through testing and analysis - they churn out unthinking, sheeplike, zombie memory monsters with no empathy who's only real goal in life is to 'beat' and be better than everyone else so they can feel smart and successful. Most of them couldn't work out how to turn on a dishwasher or understand that their first born wants when its screaming - nobody made them memorise the answer.

Some the most inventive, intuitive, innovative, creative and successful people in this world failed at school, dropped out of college, have 'learning disabilities' (in a conventional education system) and got called a dunce at school (ie Albert Einstein).

Please do not believe your on negative self talk - listen to all the voices here clamoring about your empathy and your strong ability to care about others, your communication and language skills, just to name a few things we have talked about before. You're in your last year of school and the count down is on - I remember feeling that was in my last year. Look to the bright future ahead of you once you're out of that cookie cutter and you have so much time to work out who you are, what you're good at and the things you really enjoy.

You are a very special young person MC - trust all of us here