I was born to a mother who was diagnosed as "mentally retarded" as a child and was in special education class in the late 1940s/early 1950s. She had 4 siblings. They each had a degree of cognitive slowness, one was completely nonverbal autistic. My mother was unable to do math and did not learn how to read until I was about 8 years old and at that point was only able to read at about a 2nd grade level. Meanwhile I was reading at an 8th grade level at 10, balancing the bank account, and writing out money orders for bills, and grocery shopping with food stamps. We were in the welfare system.  <br>My mother had a total of 6 kids. I was the baby. My siblings were taken away from our mother and I never got to meet them. I was raised as an only child. About 6 years ago, I finally found my siblings. And the first time we spoke on the phone we were discussing politics and thermonuclear dynamics and medicine and space travel and so on. My siblings are very, very smart. And I'm actually more than likely the most intelligent out of the bunch. Despite being born to a cognitively challenged mother in poverty. I dropped out of high school and went to work. Today I hold masters and bachelors and associates degrees and I'm a nationally board certified health coach. <br>So, I wonder where I get it from.... it wasn't genetics nor socioeconomic status.....<br>🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️