My brain seems to be constantly thinking about things. Random things at that. More so lately it seems. I think that is because of I've been having to delve into my mind more during counseling and therapy sessions.
One of the things I've been thinking about how smart I really am. I think about this off and on. Today I was reading one of my books and it talked about another book called IQ 83. It just made me think. I don't know what my IQ is. I know I'm smart. I'm by no means a genius or anything like that. It's something that I am curious to find out about though someday maybe.
It got me thinking though. I don't even know if I've ever actually had IQ tests or not. I do remember back in Elementary school some person coming over to our house and having me do a variety of tasks. I remember one involving paper circles of different colors or something like that. I don't remember anything else or why the lady was even there in the first place. For all I know, it could have just been someone needing to run a test on a child as part their degree program. Maybe it wasn't anything meaningful after all. If it was an IQ test of sorts then I'm not sure how I did and what it meant.
I do remember though in Elementary school participating in a special program; GEMINI or at least that's what I think it was. I just remember back in like 2nd or 3rd grade I and several other classmates would get pulled out of class once a week. We would go to one of the empty portables or sometimes an empty classroom and do a variety of puzzles for awhile. I remember one time we worked with a bunch of Tangrams. I don't remember how long I was in this program or whatever it was, I just know that by the time I was in 6th grade I wasn't going anymore. In fact, I don't even know if they had a program like that anymore because I don't really remember students getting pulled out of class. Well, now that I think about it, I think maybe a couple of kids were pulled out for something like this or possibly for other things.
I guess I never really knew what that special program truly was. It was only later in High School that I thought it might have been some type of GEMINI program.
I've always been pretty intelligent I guess seeing as I generally did well in school. I mostly got A's and B's. That and I loved to learn and was always curious about things. I loved school. Perhaps I was gifted and still am.
I definitely wasn't in the GEMINI program in high school though.I did try to test into the program on my own though just because I wanted to see if I could get into it. I had friends that were in the program. They showed me the classroom where they could go during lunch and I was welcome to hang out with them too and so I did. That's how I learned a little more about the program and thought about try to test into it. I took the test but ended up not getting into the program. I didn't really understand the results or what the Gifted teacher said. All I know is that I was close but not close enough to actually get into the program. So if I was gifted when I was younger, I didn't seem to be so much anymore in high school.
Yes, I wasn't in the gifted program or anything and yet most of my high school teachers and even the guidance counselor's assumed I was. It was certainly interesting when I would meet with the counselors and they would ask me if I was in the program and I'd have to say I wasn't. I'm pretty sure that they thought I should be and they assumed I was already. In fact based on their reactions, they seemed shocked to learn I wasn't. Of course, I hung out with people who were in the gifted program and spent most of my lunches in the gifted room. Perhaps that had something to do with the fact that they just assumed. I'm thinking not though.
It's something I may never know for sure. I guess I did have IQ tests but I doubt I'll ever learn what the results were. Am I still gifted? Was I ever gifted? Sometimes I wonder.
I guess it's just a mystery about me and I'll never really know.
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