@Aaronrules380:
Oh of course. But the same is absolutely true for intelligence, skill, and basically any other trait you can think of. Rich kids will do better academically because their parents can afford the best schools, the best teachers, the best supplies, and so on. On the other hand, poor kids generally have harder home situations, worse schools, schools that are specifically designed to put them in suboordinate positions and promote traits like obedience to authority while restricting creativity.
That's what I'm saying, though.
Cases where intelligence is biologically determined, DO exist. Down's syndrome is an example. But intelligence is, on the whole, socially determined. Most likely, your class and race have intersected to either destroy or preserve your educational opportunities. The city mouse and the country mouse were not born with their respective skills, they were shaped by their respective environments, for better OR worse.
I know that I'm more of a social construction theorist than most people might agree with, but I really dislike biological essentialism when it's used to explain or justify behaviors, especially oppressive behaviors. I fully admit that I'm still trying to solve these questions myself, and that the human brain is more complex than anyone could ever fathom. Ironically, it's my own fucked-up brain and the identity it spewed into existence, that usually throw a wrench in my constructionist views. :P
And on Asperger's syndrome,
people with Asperger's are known for hyperfocusing on a specific set of skills, usually to the detriment of social interaction with others.
This is why I insinuated that Aspies are more intelligent than most people, but they could also be hyperfocused on art, for example.
