Coop’s Childhood Part 3 – Real School & Beyond
January 29th, 2014 at 15:45I recall that I found the IQ test they gave me intimidating. Anytime adults focused on me, particularly in a more formal or judging way, I felt uncomfortable. All adults, including my parents, felt like another species entirely rather than simply older versions of us kids. They seemed like large all-knowing deities even, that had me at a total disadvantage.
I can only remember two questions from the test. The first was a diagram showing two paths from point A to point B, and I was asked to choose the shortest path. The second was simply, “Name a woman”, asked to me verbally by the person administering the test. I recall that I was afraid to answer and did not. I knew full well what women and men were and that my mother was a woman. But the question felt provocative to me, and that answering it would somehow be inappropriate and reveal a sexual knowledge that I should not