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In the clinic, I asked if Michael could be retested, so the specialist tested him again. To my 1, it was the same score.

Later that evening, I 2 told Frank what I had learned that day. After talking it over, we agree that we knew our 3much better than an IQ test. We 4that Michael's score must have been a 5 and we should treat him 6as usual.

We moved to Indiana in 1962, and Michael studied at Concordia High School in the same year. He got 7 grades in the school, especially 8 biology and chemistry, which was a great comfort.

 Michael 9 Indiana University in 1965 as a pre-medical student, soon afterwards, his teachers permitted him to take more courses than 10. In 1968, he was accepted by the School of Medicine, Yale University.

On graduation day in 1972, Frank and I 11 the ceremony at Yale. After the ceremony, we told Michael about the 12 IQ score he got when he was six. Since that day, Michael sometimes would look at us and say 13, "My dear mom and dad never told me that I couldn't be a doctor, not until after I graduated from medical school!" It is his special way of thanking us for the 14 we had in him.

Interestingly, Michael then 15another IQ test. We went to the same clinic where he had 16 the test eighteen years before. This time Michael scored 126, an increase of 36 points. A result like that was supposed to be 17.

Children often do as 18 as what adults, particularly parents and teachers,19 of them. That is, tell a child he is " 20", and he may play the role of a foolish child.