Scott Barry Kaufman

Like, what's what's what are we getting at here?

He stops to a score, which I believe was my score when I was tested at age eight or nine.

It wasn't even the one that I was tested 11.

And he's like, you know, this is.

this is your score uh he's like you're not gifted um you can't you know fortunately you can't qualify for gift education um but i'm here you know if you want to talk about anything else school psychology related what was your score scott 89 something like the 87 something like that i mean that's that's almost embarrassed i'm almost embarrassed because it's just like

it's a pretty low score.

Not that anyone should be embarrassed who has that score, but it's, I am so resistant to having people judge me through the lens of that.

Like, that's why I don't even really tell the story anymore.

You know, like I feel like I'm even taking a risk, like even saying that giving a number, you know, I'm not that person anymore.

He didn't really describe it to me, no.

There wasn't a real explanation.

It was really like, you're not gifted, and my hands are tied.

What can I do?

I remember seeing a textbook on human intelligence and they have a chart in there that shows what different IQ bands people are capable of achieving.

And I remember seeing my range that he kind of just showed me and it said, it said, unlikely to graduate high school.

And I, you know, I always had this rebellious bone in my body though, because I remember saying that and throwing the book across the library.

And she was looking at me for most of that class, and I was wondering why she kept looking at me.

But she took me aside after class, and she said, look, I just had to ask, like, what are you doing here?

You know, I see you.

And