Frenchman’s Mind Over Matter – The Weird Side of the Internet

Frenchman’s Mind Over Matter – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.

Witness the curious case of the Frenchman with a bum leg. Weakness in his left leg, to be more medical. Before we delve, I must tell you of this man. He is a civil servant, and has a family that loves him. He’s not a smart man, but he makes do. He’s maybe a little duller than the low end of average. And so he had weakness in his left limb, which he got tired of dealing with, so he went to the doctor.

Now when this man was a kid, he had hydrocephalus, which is fluid buildup in he brain and nervous system. He had a shunt put in as a child, and it was removed. So the doc knew to check a CT and an MRI. And when he, they, saw the results, they were shocked.

Mostly what they saw was fluid. And the man’s brain was smushed up against the inside of his skull. It was half the size of a normal brain.

This man had half-a-brain, as the saying goes. His IQ was tested, and it was 75. The average range of IQ in the population is 85-115. So really he was ten points below the low end. He’d be considered a little dim, but not intellectually disabled. Again, he was a civil servant with a loving family. I kind of actually want this guy’s life, except that I don’t know a lick of French and they use a lot of butter and my triglycerides are already tipping the meter.

Everybody’s out there trying to outsmart each other, out ‘clever’ each other and this man in France with have a mind is the one killing it at life. Go fig.

Somewhere in my coat, in my wallet, my MENSA card weeps lonely, worn from the friction of an endless slew of Milk Club cards, which have proven infinitely more useful. I do kind of wonder what his job is, and no, I won’t make a civil service joke about this. Because it would just be too easy.

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