68 IQ - Mild Mental Retardation (50-70 IQ)

If someone were to have an IQ (Intelligence quotient) of sixty-eight that would tell that the person would fit the category of "educatable mentally retarded". One will need financial assistance and may not be able to live in such an independent manner. Problems with the mentally retarded may be delays in oral language skills, deficits in memory skills, difficulty learning social rules, difficulty in problem solving skills, delays in development of adaptive behaviors such as self-help or self-care skills, and lack of social inhibitors. An IQ of seventy-nine or lower, puts the person in the unfortunate and tragic category of mental retardation. The IQ of a person is found by multiplying one-hundred times a fraction with the mental age as a numerator and chronological age as denominator. The categories of IQ are profound mental retardation (1-19), severe mental retardation (20-34), moderate mental retardation (35-49), mild mental retardation (50-69), borderline mental retardation (70-79), average intelligence (80-114), bright (115-129), moderately gifted (130-144), highly gifted (145-159), exceptionally gifted (160-175), and profoundly gifted (175+).

In the case of myself having an IQ of sixty-eight, people would treat me as exactly would I would be, only be exeedingly invaluable to society, burden for care, immature, horrible at memory and only an obstruction. Qualities I may posses as a mentally retarded person is regret and guilt because I could not accomplish a great amount or understand even simplistic and fun matters. If someone in the category did not want to be smarter than, something is wrong with them. I would definetly seek help on increasing intelligence for increase independence, understanding and success.