Picture this...
An older lady at a gathering comes up to me and crouches down expecting me to do so so she can talk, and then talks in a high squeaky voice at me which wasn't her usual talking voice. Now at the time I was around 22 years old. This ladies son is just a few years older than me. Yet some younger people she talks normally to?
I ask myself why she does this? My I.Q is higher than average. I am not a young child... Even when I was I was never talked to in a high squeaky voice by my parents! That would be silly! So why do some people do that?
My Mum started telling me off when she was with me as I got so fed up with it that I would reply in a high squeaky voice. Apparently I was being impolite.
When in school, I watched children in my class whose parents used the high squeaky voice method being mentally held back. They didn't grow up to be an adult until they retired! (Joking as I am not that old yet, but one can see my point?)
Why do people do this?
Worse than that is the ones that put their face next to yours, spoke in a squeaky voice saying words like "Cute" and pinch ones cheeks etc... And I was a teenager! What were they doing?
And when they saw my capabilities of what sort of school work I did etc, they were taken back.
I remember when I was 12, going on 13 years old and we were doing more complex equations in maths, (Why does this American keyboard change it to math? It has an "S" on the end. I am not lazy!), and I was falling behind a bit in equations such as sin cos and tan etc... So my parents paid for a private tutor to help. She started teaching me 1+1= and things like that. I was 4 when I did things at that level, so I brought my mates and other subject books but she refused to even look at them and went on with her slow teaching. Then my parents said how good I was doing in maths "Because of that teacher". Apparently she had teaching qualifications. So why was she unable to teach me at my level?. I did better in maths because my Mum said "We will end the lessons when you get better exam results", so I made a massive effort and neglected other subjects so I could stop the extra lessons. She also did English, but by the time I had finished with her, we were half way through the book "Incy Wincy Spider" which if she had let me, I would have read in two minutes flat! But as she insisted I did it at her pace, that book took months!
I kept telling my parents at the time and I was told off for being silly. Around 25 years after I had left school I mentioned it, and my Mum said "But we paid top money for those lessons and she was a highly qualified teacher! No idea how she got her qualifications as I would have taught the three or four other kids who were also being taught by her (Was one to one teaching, but I saw them leave or arrive as my hours lesson began, and it was funny as I once saw an older teenager leaving who was around 14 or 15, and he sort of shrugged his shoulders at me as he left when I was arriving. I know why he did that as I felt the same! Was "What's the point?")
I have to laugh. An elderly farming man I knew who didn't learn to read and write until he was well past retirement age, thought it marvelous that he could now read and write, and fair play, it is a big thing especially when that late in life. He was intelligent enough and wise. He did have good wisdom and actually taught me a few things. I had to laugh on this one occasion when my brother also came to visit bringing some of his kiddies, and I saw the look on the face of one of my teenage nephews when the farmer was attempting to teach him his abc's. The farmer would be upset if I mentioned he had learned them at the age of 4 or 5, (Though in his case it was a little older as he had to catch up a little as his Mum (Who walked out on my Brother) was not taking them to school due to daily hangovers from the night before)... But he was way more advanced than his abc's.
But why is it, that some parents and others, assume that because someone is younger than they are, that they need to be treated as if they were thick? I really don't get that, as even those with lower I.Q's will find this as an insult. Why do they do it?
An older lady at a gathering comes up to me and crouches down expecting me to do so so she can talk, and then talks in a high squeaky voice at me which wasn't her usual talking voice. Now at the time I was around 22 years old. This ladies son is just a few years older than me. Yet some younger people she talks normally to?
I ask myself why she does this? My I.Q is higher than average. I am not a young child... Even when I was I was never talked to in a high squeaky voice by my parents! That would be silly! So why do some people do that?
My Mum started telling me off when she was with me as I got so fed up with it that I would reply in a high squeaky voice. Apparently I was being impolite.
When in school, I watched children in my class whose parents used the high squeaky voice method being mentally held back. They didn't grow up to be an adult until they retired! (Joking as I am not that old yet, but one can see my point?)
Why do people do this?
Worse than that is the ones that put their face next to yours, spoke in a squeaky voice saying words like "Cute" and pinch ones cheeks etc... And I was a teenager! What were they doing?
And when they saw my capabilities of what sort of school work I did etc, they were taken back.
I remember when I was 12, going on 13 years old and we were doing more complex equations in maths, (Why does this American keyboard change it to math? It has an "S" on the end. I am not lazy!), and I was falling behind a bit in equations such as sin cos and tan etc... So my parents paid for a private tutor to help. She started teaching me 1+1= and things like that. I was 4 when I did things at that level, so I brought my mates and other subject books but she refused to even look at them and went on with her slow teaching. Then my parents said how good I was doing in maths "Because of that teacher". Apparently she had teaching qualifications. So why was she unable to teach me at my level?. I did better in maths because my Mum said "We will end the lessons when you get better exam results", so I made a massive effort and neglected other subjects so I could stop the extra lessons. She also did English, but by the time I had finished with her, we were half way through the book "Incy Wincy Spider" which if she had let me, I would have read in two minutes flat! But as she insisted I did it at her pace, that book took months!
I kept telling my parents at the time and I was told off for being silly. Around 25 years after I had left school I mentioned it, and my Mum said "But we paid top money for those lessons and she was a highly qualified teacher! No idea how she got her qualifications as I would have taught the three or four other kids who were also being taught by her (Was one to one teaching, but I saw them leave or arrive as my hours lesson began, and it was funny as I once saw an older teenager leaving who was around 14 or 15, and he sort of shrugged his shoulders at me as he left when I was arriving. I know why he did that as I felt the same! Was "What's the point?")
I have to laugh. An elderly farming man I knew who didn't learn to read and write until he was well past retirement age, thought it marvelous that he could now read and write, and fair play, it is a big thing especially when that late in life. He was intelligent enough and wise. He did have good wisdom and actually taught me a few things. I had to laugh on this one occasion when my brother also came to visit bringing some of his kiddies, and I saw the look on the face of one of my teenage nephews when the farmer was attempting to teach him his abc's. The farmer would be upset if I mentioned he had learned them at the age of 4 or 5, (Though in his case it was a little older as he had to catch up a little as his Mum (Who walked out on my Brother) was not taking them to school due to daily hangovers from the night before)... But he was way more advanced than his abc's.
But why is it, that some parents and others, assume that because someone is younger than they are, that they need to be treated as if they were thick? I really don't get that, as even those with lower I.Q's will find this as an insult. Why do they do it?
