Sad that no teacher had ever noticed he was bright before….

Some people have really great skills in certain areas, like understanding people, but not test well…there are some new kinds of labels for intelligences these days, like an athletic intelligence or an emotional intelligence that didn’t used to be noted on math/language tests.

I think he needs to find some good outlets for creativity and let himself realize he may not be a happy camper with school but he has potential.

If you and your BF took the same quiz on a random set of subject that you had never learned anything about he would likely score higher than you because he would be able to pick out small details, like how a word was use in a certain way back in that question so it must be related to this question. He doesn’t ‘know’ anymore about the subject but he can pick up the little pieces of info better. {that’s assuming you have an average 100 or so IQ}

To give you an idea, many tests have shown autistic people (To put it simply, people who seem to be permanently spaced out) to have IQ’s around 200.