" I shudder to think of how many kids got sidelined or ignored over a number."
I seem to recall being tested when I was in a tailspin after my parents divorced, and being told that maybe I should switch to the non-academic stream. I explained that I was going through a hard time, and they re-tested me, and were a bit red-faced when the results didn’t match.
A friend of mine works at a mainstream public school as an assistant for disabled students. (Here in Australia.)
She was telling me recently of a child with autism and mutism (the child can hear, but is non-verbal). My friend was saying that she was trying to lead the child through something, and in the process signed “F”. The child replied by signing “G”. That’s not something that just happens randomly. My friend knows some sign, but is not fluent, and is now trying to get a sign interpreter in to help the kid learn to communicate more fluently.
That child is also diagnosed as having intellectual disability. But that’s possibly because they were tested with the regular IQ test regime, not the deaf/non-verbal one. So my friend is also trying to get the kid re-assessed with a new IQ test, because who knows what the results will be if they’re able to actually communicate the answers.
But none of that has anything to do with Elon. He doesn’t have an intellectual disability, any more than he’s a genius. He’s just a grandstanding liar with delusions of competence. And a probable ketamine problem.
Look at Helen Keller; that was the classic case of the extrapolation of physical disabilities masking normal or gifted intelligence.
I’m so fucking tired of winning.
In the context of points 3 and 4, “see you soon!” has depths of meaning.
What does this headline even is supposed to mean, incendiary devices “discovered” at Tesla dealership?
They openly display and sell them to the public.
Well, this is my “surprised” face.
Also, I’m repeatedly having flashbacks to news reports from the Reagan era about “welfare queens” gaming the system.
I bet Elno hates being mocked, too:
“Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.”
Not exactly a new phenomenon. And calling it the Musk Effect gives too much… - well I want to say credit, but that’s not the right word in this context - attention? notoriety? to this very special asshole.
Roughly equivalent to “It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt”.
I think Sir Humphrey Appleby translated it best: “If you’d kept your mouth shut we might have thought you were clever.”
