I dont even understand how someone can be low iq?

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IQ has little to do with success

there are heaps of variables, but your parents/how you were raised is by far the biggest factor. look at any loser and look at their parents and the environment they grew up in

there are multi millionare ranch owners in the USA with a 90 IQ who just inherited it from their parents. life isn't fair, but you already knew that

great post and I'll add that there's little chance of recovering from a lifetime of parental neglect/abuse (as far as mental trauma is concerned)

I keep asking myself why my sister is as emotionally stunted as me when she is young and has her whole life ahead of her. could be terrible genetics but shit upbringing and poverty are more likely. environment is extremely important.

this is why I wouldn't want to be locked in an institution. whatever deviance I were supposed to recover from would multiply tenfold. but then again, I think most people trapped in a vicious cycle are basically just trapped in their environment.