Rob Henderson: A Journey from Foster Care to the US Military to Elite Academia — #20
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Did You Ever Take an IQ Test?
I don't think people were confused or anything. I mean there was like some like casual jokes and things about me being Asian but none of it was like severe or like really bad or anything. Now as you were going through all this process of foster homes and being adopted were you ever given IQ tests. Yeah so but my final foster home I was doing so bad in school I mean I was changing schools every six months sometimes even more frequently than that. And so the state of California mandated that I take an IQ test to see if I had a learning disability, which is what they thought would keep me from doing well at school. But he scored below average overall his reading score was really low
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