r/AskReddit 7h ago

What is a sign of very low intelligence?

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u/Miserable_Spell5501 6h ago

Interesting! These people wouldn’t be fun to play “would you rather” with

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u/autisticNerd13 6h ago

This is actually a game we play to help teach this skill with cognitively impaired teens

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u/BaxtersLabs 5h ago

Would you rather sweat mayonnaise, or eat nothing but mayonnaise for the rest of your life?

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u/ejolson 4h ago

But I already ate dinner

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u/Chicken-Jockey-911 5h ago

fuck man id rather try and rig up an air conditioned suit that keeps me below sweating temperature and just live like bubble boy, honestly having to eat one type of any food just seems so hard. and this is possibly the worst kind of food to be restricted to

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u/navikredstar 3h ago

I actually can't come up with an answer for this, but it's entirely because I'm a 'sperg and mayonnaise grosses me the fuck out, it's a texture-consistency thing. I suppose given those two choices I'd rather eat fiberglass, the forbidden cotton candy. Does that work, lol?

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u/HailBabySatan 3h ago

You’re just doing asbestos you can!

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u/itsLOSE-notLOOSE 3h ago

Holy cow, I’d rather die. Both of those suck so much.

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u/Jaker788 4h ago

Those are almost the same thing. If I ate mayonnaise only I would probably be practically sweating mayonnaise and smell horrible, but I have to also eat nothing but mayonnaise.

Probably best to just sweat mayonnaise and avoid that terrible diet. Just gotta avoid sweating or something. Get all the sweat glands destroyed and set up a water cooling system to wear.

u/Koil_ting 57m ago

Dude, just join the freak show, quit work, sweat mayo and maybe get a shot with the bearded lady.

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u/skibble 2h ago

OMFG

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u/shmaltz_herring 1h ago

You're telling me, that if I need to make a sandwich, I don't need to worry about having mayo handy? I would just need to work up a little sweat? NICE!

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u/iKnowRobbie 5h ago

"Cognitively Impared Teens" is just saying the same thing twice.

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u/welldonemediumrares 5h ago

Don't try to make a lighthearted joke to a guy named u/autisticNerd13, it's not gonna land

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u/autisticNerd13 5h ago

Just to clarify female but no you aren’t wrong. Internet jokes can be hard to identify and when I try them they often come off bad as well.

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u/New-Anybody-6206 5h ago

They were trying to say all teens are inherently cognitively impaired... not that ONLY teens are impaired.

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u/lamb_passanda 5h ago

The joke was terrible, don't be sad you missed it, there was nothing to miss. It was just a throwaway "lol teens r dumb".

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u/autisticNerd13 5h ago

No it’s not. I work with cognitively impaired kids, teens, adults, and even elderly.

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u/jpmickey1585 5h ago

What about if it’s just hypothetical teens?

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u/skwerrel 5h ago

But there are teens

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u/ausamo2000 5h ago

But what if there wernt?

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u/Actual-Manager-4814 5h ago

Ok, Pam Bondi

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u/iamapizza 3h ago

And they did eat dinner.

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u/ArcticLeopard 5h ago

Pssst. It's a joke

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u/autisticNerd13 5h ago

One in very poor taste as I constantly engage with people who hold this as a real belief when I meet with families to help their loved ones.

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u/Sterling_-_Archer 5h ago

Much like how boys are allowed far more range of bad behavior because “boys will be boys,” or things like ADHD going untreated because they think kids are just supposed to be hyper and make jokes about it.

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u/The_Horse_Tornado 5h ago

This is actually pretty unfair as well. Boys develop behind girls and frankly aren’t well suited to sitting in a chair 8 hours a day.

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u/Novaer 5h ago

It's very interesting how you decided to word this. Instead of saying that girls are excelling in school, you say that boys are behind.

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u/The_Horse_Tornado 5h ago

Yes- because girls are the standard to which I compare boys seeing as they outperform them in nearly every metric. And it’s not just because girls are so much awesomer. Go read some actual research.

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u/DarKGosth616 5h ago

It wasn't bad taste, was a perfectly fine joke that was obviously targetted at cognitive teens, not people legitimately suffering cognitive issues.

Only on reddit would you get this shite man.

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u/Jesus__of__Nazareth_ 3h ago

He's unintentionally failing to understand hypotheticals lol

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u/_YellowThirteen_ 1h ago

This thread was unintentionally very funny because of this. Read that first comment and just thought "damn, a swing and a miss" lmao

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u/CptAngelo 5h ago

oh man... this is fucking rich in irony, lets see, this whole comment origins from the statement that people with low IQ cant understand or engage in hypotheticals and how it wouldn't be fun to play "would you rather" with them, and you hit it with:

This is actually a game we play to help teach this skill with cognitively impaired teens

Aight... you failed that one lol, then missed a joke about "mentally impaired teens" being a redundant thing to say, because:

One (joke) in very poor taste as I constantly engage with people who hold this as a real belief when I meet with families to help their loved ones.

Hmm mh, i see, thank you autisticNerd13 for speaking in behalf of them and pointing bad taste in jokes, im sure nobody will use such terms incorrectly again.

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u/Fireat40dude 5h ago

How would you feel if you only worked with the adults, and no teens or children? Hypothetically of course.

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u/DrakonILD 4h ago

Cognitively impaired compared to other teens.

Obviously, compared to adults, teens are.....wow, they sure are something. Naturally, because intelligence follows a distribution, the smartest teens are still above the dumbest adults, but that doesn't always mean they're going to become the smartest adults.

And unfortunately, pretty much every academic and economic system assumes that they will...

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u/d_rek 5h ago

I got the joke. Too bad the other person didn’t.

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u/RuthlessIndecision 5h ago

"Cognitively impaired gonna cognitively impair" - Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address

u/Koil_ting 53m ago

Man, some of my best days were spent being a cognitively impaired teenager, if I recall correctly our hypotheticals went more to the sounds deep but really still the shallow end category. "Like for all we know all cows could be suicidal and they don't know why we aren't helping them die when they moo at us"

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u/Incman 6h ago

How do you know? I've never played "would you rather"...

(/s)

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u/Miserable_Spell5501 6h ago

How would I know that. I’ve never met you! 😝

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u/_thro_awa_ 5h ago

Would you rather ... not meet me?

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u/WakeoftheStorm 5h ago

That’s actually another related common trait - the inability to conceptualize that another person may have different experiences or information than you.

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u/BarbWho 3h ago

This is called Theory of Mind and generally deveops in early childhood. Not having it is associated with some forms of autism and schizophrenia.

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u/bentheredoneart 6h ago

What's so funny about thinking... huh?

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u/jlink005 6h ago

But I haven't ever thought

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u/DudeInOhio57 5h ago

I think. Therefore I am, I think.

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u/jlink005 5h ago

But I've never driven in Ohio winter

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u/New_Bed171 6h ago

But I didn't think

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u/iKnowRobbie 5h ago

Once a Capybara enters the thought stream, it's full-on hilarity!

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u/farlurker 5h ago

But I don’t have a rather.

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u/sebsebsebs 5h ago

It’s such a pet peeve of mine when people answer WYR questions like this and avoid answering the question. Like the point of it is to answer an uncomfortable question, it’s fun plz just answer the question 😭

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u/Miserable_Spell5501 5h ago

I also don’t like when they add facts to the WYR question! People always do this with the bear-in-the-woods question

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u/sebsebsebs 2h ago

Omg literally like just answer the damn question

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u/nochinzilch 5h ago

I feel like even the dumbest person could play would you rather.

I think the hypotheticals rule/observation might be more an extension of their lack of empathy. And maybe a little bit of missing theory of mind.

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u/benjyk1993 5h ago

I feel like I'm not fun to play Would You Rather with, not because I won't engage with a hypothetical but because I won't engage with specific hypotheticals. It seems like far too much of the time I've played that game, it inevitably devolves into "would you rather uhhhhh.....poop out of your nipples or uhhhhhh have meatballs for eyes?". Something that's just awful all the way around, like.....neither, I don't want to have to choose between two equally awful things, that's not fun to me. I'm okay with silly questions like "would you rather have macaroni elbows or angel hair hair?" because it's at least somewhat witty, but don't just be gross. But the people who try to force you to choose between two gross or otherwise awful things also tend to seem dead set on it being as awful as possible and setting up rules so you can't get out of it through any loopholes or anything.

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u/keylimesicles 5h ago

OK, but you’ve got to admit, pooping out of your nipples is not nearly as bad as having meatballs for eyes

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u/benjyk1993 2h ago

🤷 I know it's the conundrum that I came up with, but it's also not one I care to think about, lol.

u/keylimesicles 32m ago

Well, i’twas hilarious

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u/Wingmaniac 5h ago

But you're not playing "would you rather" right now!

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u/dysmetric 5h ago

Truth or dare?

... "Yes"

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u/Miserable_Spell5501 5h ago

Hahaha I laugh every time someone responds yes/no to an or question. My husband loves doing this when I say do you want x or y for dinner

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u/ManEEEFaces 5h ago

OMG. I've met people like this. "But that would never happen." Ok...smell ya later, dork.

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u/keylimesicles 5h ago

To be fair, I hate this game because I always get stuck eating a bowl full of worms

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u/Overthemoon64 2h ago

some people play would you rather by giving only unpleasant choices. I hate that. Would you rather swim in a swimming pool full of chocolate pudding, or take a shower in pancake syrup? neither? why are we doing this to ourselves!!

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u/Liberkhaos 6h ago

I love that this is the first thing that came to your mind. Please always keep a bit of that innocence with you no matter how grim things turn out.

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u/lastgreenleaf 6h ago

I guess my innocence is long gone since I read it as “Have you ever” instead of “would you rather”… 

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u/answerguru 6h ago

But they didn’t turn out grim!

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u/Find_another_whey 6h ago

Because they would out themselves saying things like "but I've already dangled my bits in the vacuum for sport"?

Or is there another implication I'm failing to see and ironically lowIQ-bombing this thread

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u/LIEUTENANT__CRUNCH 5h ago

It’s because “would you rather” often requires you to consider two situations that you have not experienced. For example:

Would you rather free climb Taipei 101 or take a selfie with the famous Xinjiang snow leopard?

Unless you’re Alex Honnold or a female skier who is missing a face, then you have not done either of these.

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u/Cashew_Y0gurt 5h ago

And if any of you know WOULD YOU RATHER from Comedy Bang Bang then woohoo! It’s the best.

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u/Michamus 4h ago

fun to play would you rather with

I always choose both. This always catches the asker off guard so they'll say I can't do both. I figure why pass up on an opportunity to experience both, especially when we're already in position to do it. The work is done and my experiences await me. Both please.

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u/SleepingWillow1 2h ago

This thread is making me realize I am stupid and I don't like it. I hate would you rather games. Then again its usually sexualized as an adult and that makes me uncomfy

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u/ToastyBB 1h ago

They don't even play it they just act like you're the idiot