[serious] People with confirmed below-average intelligence, how has your intelligence affected your life experience, and what would you want the world to know about what it’s like to be you?

I'm not really unintelligent, at least in terms of math and physics as well as other science stuff, but social norms and general self preservation slip pass me. I am almost completely apathetic to whether or not I'm injured, and am trying to get comfortable with talking about the fact I have really bad Pica and have chewed on things like small nails, thumbtacks, coffee grounds, the weird hand-protector cardboard things on coffee cups, paper, etc. I also get really frustrated really easily, and whenever I get mad I do things like punch myself in the thighs/head. The worst thing that I've ever done was jump high into the air and bodyslam the ground. During high school I mostly did this during PE and at home, idk what it was about those 2 places. I also generally ramble a lot, and essentially do the equivalent of verbal spam, and in middle school I would make jokes that would make people uncomfortable a lot. I hold down a job working with kids really well actually, just because the vast majority of the time I'm fine, just really wierd. I'ma also a bit narrcicistic, and tend to either think I'm the greatest or the complete worst and nowhere in between. Lmao this just ended up being me complaining about my untreated mental health issues and not intelligence, but my emotional intelligence is terrible, so I guess that works.

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