Artful Dodger:

> He's still young so who knows where his studies will lead him. He has an IQ over 170. He's no small mind when it comes to understanding things in the universe.

He is obviously a gifted child, and provided his Asperger Syndrome is treated carefully, he will succeed through his adolescence and later in life. I suppose that as long as those around him give him a well structured education with good time management, he will adapt without being traumatized by the turmoil of adolescence. From what I read, it is adolescence that is the most difficult time for people diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome It seems also that there is a tendency (65%) to develop anxiety disorder and/or major depressive disorder. As long as he has good medical care he will do well, and he will be able to fully use his gifts.

An IQ of 170 seems impressive, but in reality it is meaningless. My grandfather was a psychologist. When I was a kid he measure the IQs of all his grandkids. I scored at 176, so he assumed I was a genius. Sadly, he was wrong! Don't get me wrong. I am exceptionally good at math, chemistry and physics. I was valedictorian in my highschool. I also discovered that in the real world nobody gives a damn. You won't get a job being a genius. You get a job being practical. So after all the chemistry and math and presumptious bourgeois crap, I discovered that unemployment is a hard pill to swallow, and I got useful skills. Power tools, machinery, you name it. Then I became a bus driver instead. Now I drive a bus, and when I see a pothole I calculate how much weight it would take to crush it a bit more, and make it bigger. Then I figure, is my bus heavy enough?

So a high IQ sounds nice, but then capitalism does not need people with a high IQ. What capitalism needs the most is cheap labour, so that those high IQ capitalists who own the factories and businesses can make a profit at the expense of the low IQ working classes. High IQ in capitalism is valuable, only if it makes the rich richer. Otherwise nobody cares about it.