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[–] 16415662? ago 

who here Mentally Gifted Minor aka MGM?

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[–] 16446516? ago 

I scored in the top 98th percentile of a standardized math test for my state in 5th grade. I could've skipped middle school because I passed the high school equivalency test but my parents told me that they wouldn't support me if I did. My 5th grade teacher Mr. McNeil told me I could have stayed with him if I went to high school and I still wonder to this day what could have been. Dude was a based former Green Beret instructor. He had us call him sir and didn't want us saying "uh" in any of our sentences. I got into seltzer water chugging contests with him. He was my most favorite teacher of all time.

But yeah back to MGM. Scored pretty high on IQ tests. When I asked about my scores, I was told standard IQ tests couldn't measure certain individuals correctly and had to be given individualized IQ tests. But at that point I had caught on to the game and decided to be "dumb". Stopped giving a shit with my grades until my last year of high school.

That's when I found out my math book had done a problem incorrectly. Doing the problem the way I was taught in class, I got a different answer than the one they gave in the book. I showed it to the teacher who then had me show it to the class on the whiteboard. The "smartest" kid in class came up to me after and asked what I was doing in that class and why I wasn't in the advanced class. I asked him the same question and wandered off