Thanks Paul. I think its great to have clueless people like you in the
group because you will ask the questions we are all wondering but
afraid to ask for fear of appearing "unenlightened" :-0)))

I have a little story about asking:

When I was 7-8 years old I was sent to a PHd Psychologist (the first of
many in years to come) for testing. You see, I was a "problem child". I
was often disrupting class when I felt put upon. Uncooperative,
belligerent, forever challenging the teacher with questions they
couldn't/wouldn't answer. Unable to concentrate or sit still. Hyper
aware of anything remotely looking like "unfairness" or arbitrary
demands. In today's parlance I would have been termed ADD-H, Dislectic,
Alexithymic, PTSD, and perhaps a half dozen other psychiatric
disorders.  In yoga it would be said that I was attracted to and born
into a family based on my prenatal and postnatal tendencies in lack of
mental/physical control. For myself, as I look back, I would describe
me as one intelligent and terrified little kid, with little orthodox
social skills/control and suffering from sugar/diet induced psychosis,
who felt perpetually threatened and with little control of my
environment. This ignominious start would put me on the path of
contrariness. Or defining myself in terms of opposition to; as opposed
to connection with, everyone and everything.

But back to my story. When I was being interviewed by the psychologist
one of the questions she asked was, what does COD mean. Without
hesitating I said, Collect on Delivery. Just then the women stopped and
stared at me for a moment and then smiling she remarked, "In all the
years I have been doing this I have never had a person your age answer
that question correctly. How did you know that?" I explained that just
a couple of days before a postman had come to the door and told me he
had a COD for my parents. I didn't know what that was, so I asked him.
He told me. The women said she was very impressed and we continued the
testing. I thought to myself, "boy being intelligent sure is easy if
all you have to do is ask questions." But deep down I felt like I had
somehow "cheated" by asking.

Jared

Oh, just incase you were wondering my IQ came out to be 160-80, 10% of
the country, etc. Well they put a "green tag" on my file, for gifted
and I was put back in the class and as far as I know that was the
extent of my "gifted" program. Years later my father would tell me that
my teacher at the time was let go because she was "crazy." With what I
know now, I have no doubt I was very much connected to and reacting to,
her insanity (fear) with my own. BTW, the next time I was tested as a
teenager my IQ dropped 20 points or so, which couldn't have been
correct. Everyone know teenagers know everything :-) Sense then I have
come to dismiss IQ testing as cultural and language biased horseshit.
But I remembered the part about asking :-)

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