I am adopted, and I later found out that my birth mother is a very successful solicitor. My entire blood related family are successful academics, lawyers and educators. <br><br>My adopted mother is not what you would call bright. She simply does not understand a lot of things, far more than you would think possible. I'm in the top third according to an IQ test. I don't know if that means anything, I am certainly not financially successful by any stretch of the imagination. I am good at my job, which I enjoy and which is challenging, I have a happy family life and  get on well with most people. The hardest part of my life has been and still is dealing with my adopted mother. She falls out with everybody, usually over perceived slights, she won't look after herself, she cannot do something as basic as using the internet or booking a taxi to the airport. She has no interests, no hobbies and gets all her views on the world from the most easily digestible sources, which in my country is tabloid newspapers. I took her for a hearing test recently and the instructions were to press a button every time you heard a sound. She could not understand the instructions, we had to keep telling her what to do and in the end we gave up. <br><br>If you have not had to deal with stupidity, or low IQ scores or whatever you want to call it, you have no idea what it is like.  Some people literally have no idea what is going on. Curing this disability would be a  godsend. I would buy a case of those pills.,(reply>), @Jake Addy Do you really think that they didn't think of that when they took her for A HEARING TEST? Yeah, there's other factors, but some people are just born dumb, and some people are just born smart. It blows my mind that people try to deny that basic fact of life by pretending that being hard of hearing is easy to confuse with a lifetime of consistently failing to put 2 and 2 together.,(reply>), @benoit8850 my thoughts exactly.  Biology is string I guess because it seems compassion maybe a bio trait .,(reply>), @benoit8850 That is very true.,(reply>), That must be tough.<br>But that's the cards life gave you.<br>At least, as challenged as your adoptive mother is, I'm guessing she took care of you, while your birth mother gave you away.<br><br>High IQ does not imply goodness.<br><br>At least, you have the potential to acquire the tools to better your life if you  chose,(reply>), @Jake Addy Not my stepmother.