Why Are IQ Scores Dropping? It's NOT Just iPads and AI. So What Is It?

Researchers keep pointing to iPads and AI as the reason IQ scores are declining — but the timeline doesn't add up. Amanda and Leta ask the uncomfortable questions: Why were scores already dropping before iPads existed? What role do IEPs, overscheduling, and the disappearance of recess play? And are early IQ tests creating self-fulfilling prophecies for neurodivergent kids? More questions than answers — but that might be the point.

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Hey, Leta, it's been a little bit since we've done a podcast. Um, I maybe had a little bit of a, um, issue with all the stress and everything, and the podcast had go give just a little bit so that I did not have a full breakdown, correct. You looked like you were about to have a heart attack. I would like my mom alive. The move from the move from the old studio to the new studio, getting every Owen in, we suddenly went from um, one. A lovely thing to, or like eight classes to 30 classes to everything involved with that, to new students are showing up and like dealing with parents, which I love the parents, but, uh. I have had people overload and yeah, I, I, I'm still not a hundred percent good. Um, but we're back. We're gonna talk about stuff. We're gonna talk about autism, we're gonna talk about tap dancing. We've got some amazing interviews that are recorded and ready to go out. Uh, you're looking at everything there. Uh, what are you thinking? Um, I, so I wanted to talk today. Um, we're going to record a couple episodes today, but, uh, this first one going out, I really wanted to talk about the fact that we are looking at a major, major, major, major decline in IQ levels for kids in Gen Z and Gen Alpha. And I. All right, so Jack has decided to join us. Um. No. So one of the things that intrigues me about this, and you're like I am watching Jack, is we are seeing a huge decrease in iq, and it's not just in the neurotypical community. Every single one of the autistic kids that I work with, not just at the studio, but across the board in my advocacy and all. Every single one of them is being given a less than 78 iq. And the average IQ is like 1 10, 1 20. There's a problem here, right? Lita? Yes, A plus side, cute doggy fixes everything. Well, but there, I think there's a lot to be stated because every single. Thing I'm looking at is just like, oh, they're the iPad generation for Gen Z and for I would like to mention if their parents barely want to interact with them, not their faults, their parents decided, give it an iPad. It won't bug me then. It's not their fault. Their parents did not really think through what being a parent meant, like interacting with the thing you burst. But you can't just blame it on the iPads 'cause you're noticing there's a bunch of other stuff that's happening at the same time. Schools. Um, the school day has gotten longer. You're seeing kids are being, it's not just iPads, it's, you don't have the recess. You did, you don't have the free time you had in high school. You are not interacting with kids. You're not interacting with adults the way you used to. The higher the IQ you used to have, the more likely you were to be interacting with adults versus interacting with your own age group, which may or may not be a good idea. Um. You're thi seeing things like the gifted and talented programs that used to be, you know, so separate. They have mainstreamed those, they have mainstreamed, um, special ed classes, the IEPs, almost everyone has an IEP, but the IEPs aren't. Go ahead. Homeschool best school for this decade. Just saying homeschool best school. Don't care what? My friends say helps go. Best goal. Ah. But there's another thing. If you do traditional homeschool with like a Friday school or a co-op school added to it, you are not seeing the same decline in IQ levels. You are seeing the same decline in IQ levels on online schools, which are, you know, saying, oh, we're homeschooled, or certain umbrella schools. But if you were. Doing more tutoring. If you're doing this, you are not seeing that decline in iq. So it cannot just be, I mean, there's so many things that are going on. How are they just automatically saying, it's the iPad, Because have you met these people? They're lazy. They are a escape goat and unfortunately none of them have children who want a escape go. You wanna say something? Jack? Jack. the pity's not talking. Uh, the Pitbull does not really do a lot of talking on the podcast. No, but I mean, here's a question I have for people, and especially within the, um, autistic community. A lot of these decisions are being made like you're not idiots. You are not seeing. Yeah, I'm not saying they're being made by idiots. And I think we need to have a whole discussion on the adult diagnosed and the self-diagnosed, making so many decisions about what's right and wrong for, uh, the community. But that's a different podcast. If I, if I see an idiot, I will say it's a idiot. I won't lie. I got told that lies are bad. If it's idiot, I will call it out for being idiot. Hi Jack. Wait, here's a, did Jackie Poo's having fun? Did Jackie Poo's having a lot of fun? Um, here's my question for a lot of these researchers though, and I think it's more than just the iPad. Like I said, um, they're like, well, I. Their attention spans are giving out 'cause they're just watching YouTube shorts. They're just watching tiktoks. The thing is, uh, that doesn't hold water because they're also in school for longer than they've ever been in school before. It's kind of hard to watch YouTube or TikTok when you have no time for it and nobody's paying, staying up past 12:00 PM at night. That's another question. All these kids, they are in like when we're, you're looking at, jeez. Gen Z and even into you, they're in 20 gazillion different things. They're not focusing like in my age group, in the millennials or you know, gen X. If we had one thing we were doing, you did that sport. You did that music. Musical instrument. You did that one thing, you might go try some others with rec, but you didn't train hard for more than one thing. Nowadays you have parents who have five different things they've got their kids in, in one night. Um, is it just the Instagram and reels and YouTube shorts and TikTok, or is it that you've never left? Or some reason before you even. At the age of 10, burnout Jossane, just Jos, Joss. It's just, just, just saying, you idiots. Well, not you idiots, but the idiots who are daring to make these scientific research, you're definitely scientific. You're not even interacting with children. Why are you all children redoing child psychology? God damn. I'm sorry to be in a freaking child thing if you don't even like children. And I think there's also the idea that you can just blame iPads and nothing else, and this decline is huge. This decline is so significant. It is ridiculous and it cannot just be ex explained away by, oh look, they had iPads. Oh look, they had Vietnam term also. Therefore they're something messed them up. Dunno what? It's all like, um, I, I have so many lists of raisins. Well, have friends. Within the autistic community, and I don't, Within the autistic community. I think that this pr uh, kind of helps. My point is we test your IQ at like two, three years old, and then we retest you at five or six and say, that is your final iq. You will not go any further. Um. Hey, yes, let's have a 5-year-old drive to ship. 5-year-old drive the titan. Let's have the 5-year-old drive a freaking love and spaceship. I mean, I'm not disagreeing with you. Um, but actually no, that would go terribly, terribly wrong. We don't that five year olds. No. I think the thing though is you cannot blame iPads. A child, no. No, you definitely can't blame the child, but you cannot blame iPads. When a 2-year-old, a 3-year-old, I've seen parents come to me with a one and a half year old, a 13 month old, and they're like, my child has just scored such a bad IQ that they're telling me my child is going to be living with me for the rest of my life. Ah, yes. I would like to say A, the, the idiots are making the IQ test B, they wanna make it seem like they're not idiots for their own egos sake. And c yeah, for their own egos sake, they're making, uh, one and months year old look stupid in the world and Noah fits if you pair to believes it. Just no offense asked one months into the world. Why do you believe it? I'm sorry. Why? I'm sorry. It's just the hard truth. Don't give. Oh, but parents make mistakes. Why would you make mistakes on that one? I'm sorry. No, that is one into the world. It's barely even stay awake for a good track of hours that barely know it exists. Actually. Do you even know you exist? Like. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. So like I did actually realize why existed until six. that neurodivergent kiddos start getting PTSD from about the time they're born into this very neurotypical world. Yeah, that's because neurotypical like to do a scene called. Also, they're very, very, very, very, very rude. Also, I'm not the rude one also. At least I don't lie. At least I call out the idiot when I see an idiot. No offense, I'm not gonna let the idiot say a idiot. You gotta call out the idiot so it stops being an idiot. You can't be nice. Tell the idiot, oh, it's okay. You just call it idiot. Well, that's what they're saying these kids are, and I don't think enough parents understand on adults now, children. Children literally don't understand if you're 40 and dunno how to drive a car. So El, you have good reason. Okay, well four year olds normally don't know how to drive a car, but what I'm saying is I think some of these parents. Or so, and I think the researchers are so looking for the problem, like to be one thing they can fix. But you sit there and you, I talk to these parents and they're like, my next stop is TRE, which is the resource exchange here in Colorado Springs and a lot of other places. And I'm sitting there going, I don't know if you're aware of this. You as a parent need to, like, back in the day we had. A lot more social stuff for adults. You had your quilting circles, you had your book clubs, you had places that, not like karate and dance and all that where you're doing an activity or the gym. You had places you actually had to go sit down and talk to people of different age groups. Like there were the really old women and the really young women, and there were discussions being had, like even bridal showers and baby showers were about imparting wisdom into the next generation. I have to question how much of the IQ issue is. We don't have that anymore. So you have like a bunch of these autistic parents being told that your kid scored so badly that they are considered intellectually disabled for life. Uh, delight for life vent, like intellectually delayed disability, whatever they call id. I just could say, can we please burn that word? I'm sorry. That word is shit. Just burn it. Just, just burn it. Like the Salem Witch childs goddamn. Um, but the thing is, and I'm gonna try to be as nice about this as possible to parents, um. It's not just your iPads. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy though, and I think a lot of it is, you see, the more kids have IEPs in school, the more dumb down the dil goes, the more IDEA goes. And I'm not saying IEPs are bad, I'm saying the people putting 'em together The school wants money, their money hungry. They're money hungry. No fat ain't the rate. You should be worried about being money hungry. It's the people that live in Roger School system. They hungry. Hungry, freak, hungry. I don't think it's teachers, I don't think it is the administra, like the lower administrations. I don't think they know. I've talked to teachers who are like, we get no extra money for this kid on an IEP, and I'm sitting there talking to the school board who knows exactly how much money every school board member I've ever talked to knows exactly what an IEP diagnosis means for the school system. Oh wow. Politicians are money hungry. I'm shocked, Lee, to find out that the politicians are money hungry. No offense people. You keep saying you don't like these people. Don't willfully follow these people. No offense. Pick a side, pick this going after five. No, but that goes back to the, I think. Boy, we have, I think there's a lot to be said that everyone dealing with these kids do not understand autism. They don't understand you are getting, teachers don't get taught anything other than the material. But even then you don't have to learn the material. And this is not a bash on teachers. What is he Doggo doing? Um. But you can't just blame the iPads, which is what teachers are blaming the parents. Parents are blaming the teachers, researchers are blaming the iPad and, stop looking for a scapegoat, actually figure out the problem. Stop looking for a scapegoat, actually fixed it. Stop looking for an scapegoat. Have brains, but there is so much more to it. Like I said, you see a major increase in. Kids being diagnosed with IQ issues at a very young age in 20 10, 20 11, 20 12, which is right when they're saying that the IQ shift happened. Your IQ when we got it tested when you were a baby was not good. Oh, shot. I was only a few years into the world. I knew shit. El shocker. El. Such, such a shocker. Such a shocker. That's a thing that was only a few years into the world, knew nothing. Oh, no. That's so, so, so, such a shock. A shocker. A shocker. A ee And can I continue? Yeah. But I think your dad and I, and even your team who all were. Little tizzy ourselves or a lot. Um, we put that to the side and went, well, that's her at three. We didn't bother to retest you at six.'cause we're like, uh, you know, this thing was meant for 18 year olds. You should have been retested at six. None of us bothered Guys in Wyoming. Idaho, but I mean. I mean, I, the whole, I'm sorry, I keep confusing the two. Why do I keep confusing the two? I'm, I, I, I really gotta figure out why I keep flipping dates in my head. I think there's a lot to be said though about the fact that this idea that it's just the iPad. When you have so much other data points, it's ridiculous. And parents are parents and they're going to class on to, it's just the iPad. I'm sorry. You can't use the escape guilt child on this one. but think about because they're like, well, the iPad and ai, AI is making kids dumber. I use ai. you actually bother to figure out your child's issues in life, instead of just going, I blame it on this and go on with my life, they would be doing better. They're probably talking to you. But no, like on the AI thing, and, and I'll say this, uh, I used, I do not use chat, GPTI use gym, the paid Gemini. But, and I use AI with a lot of stuff and AI to use it, right? You have to be extremely smart. You have to know how to code, how to speak to it, how to do stuff. Now if you wanna just use chat GPT, the way a lot of these teenagers are, we had asked GS and it was just as stupid. Um, so it can't just be ai.'cause we had asked JS and they said that was going to create IQ problems. And, uh. Younger millennials might seem stupid to me, but their IQ didn't go down. You're like, what is Ask Jevs mother? No, I was just gonna say, you know, no offense to most of humanity, but the animals seem to be doing better with the, the imit amount of emotions. They got Well, and I mean, you're right on that, but here's like. I have to ask how much of this is listening to therapists who are giving it. bad advice? I said all of it. Yeah. I wanted to. I'm sorry, doesn't Megan come outta Dragons seem like the smartest thing on the planet? They are not. They are not. Doesn't make freaking blobfish look better. I'm sorry. How we top dog across the world and yet we seem to not act like we should be top dog. I'm sorry. At this point the ACA should be rolling the planet. But there has to be a question asked, especially because we are seeing. Yep. A larger amount of autistic kids now than ever before. Yep. Being tested as IDD and which last I checked, we got rid of in the dsm, but we'll ignore that fact. Um, and something has to isn't, and they're being tested at a younger age and parents are holding onto that. And I'm kind of wondering how much of this is a. Self-fulfilling prophecy because then you're being told to go instead of like, It would be all of it. but I mean, 'cause you, you get the whole thing where you have more and more kids and more and more young adults, they're coming out, granted they can't talk to people. But if you were in school. So many hours a day and you're not supposed to talk in class. And then you go straight from school to your after school activities and you're not just in like one activity. You're in like five or six activities throughout the night. So you're bouncing from basketball to soccer to dance, to swim class, and, and then you have your therapies. And what used to be like, Hey, we'd have all our therapies at this one location, and our therapists would all chitty chat with each other and somehow making the 18, 16th, 17th and 19th century look like. The good years. I'm sorry. This is making it look like we're, when America was rolled by Britain being the decent years, I'm sorry. This is making it look like the cave men were a better decade to live. And actually now I'm saying it's a ca. Men, we probably eat a better decade to live. so when I was young, if you had. Any, any ability to pretend you were, you know, neurotypical. Hello. Hi. Nice to meet you. There were a lot of things like looking back, it's like. I think teachers needed to learn a lot more, and they still do, but like my teachers, I had dysgraphia. It made my handwriting and spelling bad. OMG. We need to hill back in first grade. Nowadays we're like OMG, we're not going to work on the dyslexia or dysgraphia. We're just going to pass 'em. We've got a problem. Neither one is a good idea. Yeah. But I kind of have to wonder, you know, is there a better option because my age group, you saw us jump, um, from the smart people do what the smart people should be handling and don't let the idiots handle what should be done by smart teeth and don't let the idiots feed their. Looks because on three years they can't do taxes Well, no, but like, or cook because it's. like I had friends who wrote, rode the short bus. Were in the special classes. Who today are lawyers. Because they got the learning they needed with the stuff they needed. And yes, others did not make it, but they're, on the other hand, we separated the really intelligent kids out. It wasn't just the dumb kid, dumb kids, for lack of a better word. Um, but I think we never had IEPs. Like I had an IEP because I. Have a speech problem. They, most of my friends, unless you were in the special class, if you got into the gifted and talented class, you did not have an IEP. I think reading some of these IEPs, I'm like, dear teachers, um, I think I know where the IQ iss going down. No, so like some of these IEPs that I read, it's things like, oh, your child has severe learning problems. They don't have to do their homework. It's up to mom and dad the, what? I'm, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. What? I'm sorry. What? I'll strangle people what I have seen IEPs where the student does not have to take their state test. A teacher or an adult can take their state test for them because the student would be overwhelmed. pampered little show dogs. So you're telling me these children are getting pampered, like a little show dog? Like Teen times, little Showdown, like Little Showdown, like Teen Times Showdown. Like Teen Little Showdown. You know, at least the show dogs have medical issues and no quality of life. Teen children have quality of life. wait. But do you, if everyone's always doing your work for you, doesn't that make it harder on you? I mean, duh. You are not learning anything. If everyone is always doing everything for you, then I have to force myself to figure out how to survive on my own. which leads me to my question of is it POS again? Is it possible that the IQ rates are plummeting and we're talking like. Average IQ in your generation is below average IQ overall, I have one saying, why do you keep saying possible? Like it ain't the truth. because there haven't been studies into this. They've all You know, the iPad. they've also all been studied by people who don't even like children. I can't prove that, but I can. They're not looking into, okay, so the IEP rates are. I mean, you can, if you ask them, do you ever want children? If they say, no, I'm child free, then I don't like children. But think about it, when I was a kid. With the beginning of the IEPs and the IDEA act, they were very careful about what your IEP said. Like I had severe dysgraphia. I still have severe dysgraphia. I mean, you've seen people walk into the studio and go, Amanda, you misspelled something. And I'm like, hi, dysgraphic here. Um, why'd you let me try to write or do anything? But I think, but that wasn't like. It wasn't the crutch. It has become like now it's like, oh, they're this graphic. We won't have them try to write or spell. Guess what I'm sorry. No offense. I, I, I, I, I am sorry. You people. Lily forced me to read a bunch of people, which I only met like once a week in my daily life. And now you're like, oh, this poor little baby can't at. No, it's even worse than that. It's okay. They're dyslexic. They're not reading. Let's not give them audio books. Let's not have them listen to adult podcasts. no offense, but are we sure this isn't wrong by, I dunno. Maybe people who want to It's run by people who don't wanna give up power. If you keep the populace I already knew that I met the other people. Are we sure the other people aren't also helping? I'm not sure. Uh, but if you keep the populace down, you're a lot better off. You know, I don't trust these random people I see online going, we need to fight for our rightfully giving up. I'm sorry. I don't believe that you watch rights if you're wonderfully giving it up. By Will. By Will. My freaking will. By Will. A lot of these requests aren't coming from within the autistic community. A lot of these I-E-P-I-D-E-A ACT requests what people think is the community asking for it. It's parents Hi. I want money. totally different, it's not just that with the parents. It is. They have been given a bill of goods. Can I, parents have been sold a bill of goods that their kid can't, and they start self-doubting and it, everyone around them is telling them, oh, all this stuff works, which the community has continuously said this. This stuff doesn't work. And it's, but if it was just the autistic community, it'd be one thing we're looking at. Even the neurotypical IQ is going down. Something has to give. But you are seeing neurotypical students on IEPs and 5 0 4 plans. Now. You are not just seeing kids with. Uh, gifted and talented. You're not just seeing kids who needed. It used to be your IEP was only if you needed specific things from the school. But the IDEA ACT brought a lot of what used to be privately done into schools because we couldn't trust pa I mean because parents were working too much. It wasn't that we couldn't trust them. It would definitely not be that the federal government would did an entire act saying that they don't trust you as a parent. I saw that. I, I thought that we, I, but we don't, I, I'm not supposed to say what I'm seeking on here, aren't I? At this point in time. I, I, this is confided at At this point in time, we have kids who grew up in Idaho and Iowa in the dep. Great Depression. Have a high that were growing up in a one school room schoolhouse and doing agriculture, working daddy's farm at the same time, and on an ag schedule, which meant, you know, they weren't there when planting was going on. They weren't there when Calvin was going on. They weren't there when harvesting was going on. They were going at a very. Le, they weren't learning, algebra, calculus, all these higher level subjects in school, I thought most of them was learning. Via their daddy and mom. they have a higher IQ than we are seeing in this generation. Oh, I wonder why. Oh, I wonder why. Oh, I wonder why. It's not like it's. It's not though, because if you think about it, you are looking at a bunch of papers coming out Leta that are like, oh, we know it's iPad and it's. the papers. They're not even actually doing research, they're just writing shit. They're literally just writing buffalo. It's the papers and the, uh, are coming out and saying it's iPads and it is, um, ai, Oh and they're telling teachers but you also have to, and, and I'm going to put this out there, the, there is a large, large autism. Industrial complex that makes billions of dollars a year, billions. And they're starting to have more and more adult things for the adult daycares for the parents who can't take, uh, have to get guardianships of their kids, which I am not going to conspiracy theory. I'm just going to leave it there. I, I am 14, and yet I am high. Unsettled and creeped out, and it sounds like the SAR to horror movie and book. I, I think some of these parents and some of these educators are not as up on the autism industrial complex as other people are, but. I'm highly disturbed. If it was just the iPads, if it was a hundred percent just iPads are causing this and artificial intelligence, then why are three year olds scoring lower than ever before? Uh, because a, go check those people score or not care about the wellbeing of children. A, have ego and need to maintain that ego. B, want power and need to maintain that power. And C, we all know what is C if you're part of my friend group. Amy, it makes no sense to me. And maybe it's just 'cause I'm crazy, but if you were looking at very young kids who should not have had that, they're not. Looking at artificial intelligence, yet they're not looking at, we're looking at Gen Beta. So between Gen Millennials and Gen Z, there was a huge significant drop in IQ between Gen Z and Gen Alpha. There was a huge, significant drop in IQ between Gen Alpha and Gen Beta. There's another huge significant drop in Wait, there's actually a gen beta. The babies at the studio are Jim Beta. What do you mean? The little ones at the studio are a different generation than you. They're not that younger than me. Welcome to the world I'm I, generations are stupid. Generations so stupid. Whoever is doing this whole generation thing is stupid. by ignoring. The generations are stupid. You are looking between the eighties kids and. And the kids who were born in 2000. So in case anyone's wondering, not all of them were raised by iPads. Um, Were born before iPad were made because the two thousands kids, because iPad were even made in the two thousands. That was 2011 and to blame it on thousands was really long. Legs die. Which is what I'm saying, if you look at that 2000 is when those IE Ps started expanding and going crazy, and you start seeing the IDEA act come in more and more to most every single student, and you start seeing a decline in IQs starting in the 2000 that starts gradually declining, but they're like, oh, these kids born in 2000, got iPads when they were 10 Oh, hi. Yes. This is your child's fault. Everything is always a child's fault, but, and then they're like, and they're growing up with ai. No, they didn't. AI is like, they're like in their twenties people. wait, I, AI became a singer when I was eight. A twin. No, they're chat. Leta. They're claiming chat GPT in Gen Z's youth, which last I checked. do you mean jet seas you? That happened in like 2020. What do you mean most? That's what I'm saying. Is there like, because chat GPT existed, I'm sorry, where these people, their research from. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I, I know you wanna be nice to these parents, listening to these people, but I'm sorry, how. Eyesight and I have seen people who know more information about this and. But I, no, that's where my question is, is you, this idea that it's just iPads. We are talking elder Gen Z, who is in the workforce, who is hitting. Yes. The fact that you're laying them dare have a disability is the reason why they have a disability. But Here's my thing. We are talking about Gen Z who is hitting 30, they're like in their twenties, my. They're old just now graduating high school. But I think that group's gonna wind up being pushed back into Gen Z or Gen A, but you are talking twenties and 30 year olds and it's, oh, they had iPads that came along in they were even, oh, I'm sorry. They were awe when you were still using the box computer iPads are just iPads. year. Yeah. You are the same age as iPads. Yes. So therefore, I'm sorry, I don't think I alive when a 30-year-old person was. They are same. Z is old. They're saying Gen Z has never known a time without what AI I'm sorry. I have. Two. I'm sorry, who was I'm, I'm sorry, what? Idiot, idiot. That's lead Gen Z. I'm sorry. The eldest Genzer were born in the 19 hundreds. No offense. I was not alive in the 19 hundreds. Gen Z starts in 1996. Not all alive then. That's before the computer, Lita, they're talking people who were born before, the incident before smartphone. Not before the internet, but before smartphones were a thing. Before your iPod was a alive, before Monster High, before YouTube, before TikTok, before Instagram, before Facebook. and. they're saying that the reason they're Evelyn Pirates, lion Guard. I can't go down the list. Bluey. I can go down the farther list. Wherever after high. they're saying. life before Barbie. Barbie is old They are saying that the IQ Barbie Dreamhouse because these kids grew up with iPads, except for iPads started in 2010, McStuffins. the decline in IQs starts with the 1996 group I can't remember the other names of TV shows. I watched as a child with Stale between the elder millennials and the elder Gen Z there is. Between. and go, I have a list of everything right at 2011. Between my elder millennial generation and the elder Gen Z generation, there is a significant IQ drop, yet there was not an iPad. There are a hundred percent Lita stating that this drop started from the 2010 iPad, even though there was already a significant drop. Netherland Pirates. But that's where it's like, this doesn't make sense. This absolutely does not make sense either you need to redo the generations or something's wrong.'cause what they're doing is they're claiming that Gen Z had your life. Or they're looking at and just randomly writing bullshit. No, I think they're not randomly writing. I. Bs. I think they are looking at the wrong data.'cause what they're seeing is these kids were going into, you know, middle school when the iPad I'm sorry, are, are you telling me the wrong data? I was telling them that random 30-year-old people were alive in the 2011. No, what I'm saying is it's really easy sometimes when you're doing a paper to see one data point and fixate on that data point. Fence mother. Why did you have to make me smart? My life would be easier interacted with these people if I wasn't smart. Well, according to the newest papers out there, you should not have the IQ you have because you're a gen alpha Are they even actually testing children? They're, They are. are they testing a good amount of children? They are. And like I said, for autistic kids, your IQ is supposedly. Cemented by the time you're five or six. Um, but the thing is, it doesn't make sense because every single one of y'all is coming up with a IQ below 78, either A, the testers are wrong, which I am more than willing to go. Why are we seeing a 90% below 78 range? They wanna keep their eagles. If their eagles ain't met, they will be sad because, oh no, you want me in my ego? Why did my math is not my strong suit because I got a degree in something else. So let me, uh, give you this. What they are saying, Lita, is that your generation of autistic kids are 48 points below an average iq. You know, it doesn't count if you're only looking at what the IKEA was at five. You know, it doesn't count if. But there's, the thing is all these parents are believing it, so I am wondering if it's becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy, if. You might wanna also test the parents. No offense. I think we might wanna also test the parents at these testers. We might want to test them. I'm not so sure, unless you, unless you're a part of my friend group that this the a w I'm not so sure that these parents act. I think we might want test parrots, you know, just make sure it's I think you're right. I think. Um, the, one of my favorite things of this whole thing is you are seeing parents now go, oh, and people have said it's the iPad for a while, but there's so much else going on here. I mean, you took away recess. wasn't It Sounds Well, yeah, but let's go over things you've taken away in schools in the, for Gen Z, recess, Everything, arts, everything. Theater Anything that made anybody feel anything inside and didn't make them feel as numb as a tree, as hollow, even a lot of sports have gone to, you don't have JV anymore. So do we just watch, uh, depression era all over again because I feel like this is what this is leading up to. Well, okay. First off, the depression era was due to a lot of other stuff. It was a stock market You can't tell me that that other stuff isn't gonna repeat. It can, but I mean, you are also seeing there was a, with Gen Z, especially the old, younger millennials, I'm tossing y'all in there too. Um, you saw the push to have well-rounded where you could not focus on one thing. Rounded what? Burnout. At a. I am not saying however, you're looking at like, and I'm not sure if this is dealing with anything, but you're looking at parents have over, 'cause that's the other thing is they're saying kids are mentally exhausted. But if you are, say. I like any, but you're sitting there and you've got kids. Nowadays. Let's take the autism world because that's where we're in. You're in a B, A for a gazillion hours a week. You're in school for a gazillion hours a week. You're in speech for a few hours a week. You're in OT for a few hours a week maybe while in school. Um, then you turn around and your parents have you in dance therapy, music therapy, swim therapy, this therapy, horseback riding therapy. You have no time to sit and go. Let me just relax. I'm not sure. And sometimes, I mean, we've had it where someone calls up and goes, Hey, I've gotta cancel.'cause they've got another thing with their other thing. And I know it's going on with the, um. Which I'm gonna call it neurotypical world.'cause I've talked to friends of mine who own dance studios and they're like, we'll have a rehearsal scheduled and so and so can't make it 'cause of volleyball practice. And it's like, I get that. This is what you've trained parents to do. basically, hi, yes, let's take your child, make them not have a childhood, and make them work like a nine five adult. Yes, but that's also, I mean, if the IQ scores were looking at, and once more, this is based off of guys who were helping their daddy on the farm in the thirties. Um. You have to ask yourself, I think in a lot of ways is there a correlation between the fact that back then you weren't doing a gazillion things at once. You weren't in school for hours on end. You had to go help with the household tours, you had to do that. I mean, and then you see like it continuously got better and better with your scores, um, until the millennials and elder millennials at that. I'm gonna I'm gonna go with one had mental health and one didn't. have you seen how much Gen X and the millennials drink? I'm not really a hundred percent sure. As elder Mom, mom, mom, mom. Even though they drink. Have you seen the Christmas ornaments lately? At least the fact I. If it goes on the tree for little old Santa Claus and you have more than just that, I'm sorry if you're doing the order of alcohol, I might wanna stop. I'm sorry, but I Santa Claus ment mint of a mar margarita. But here's a question that I have for these researchers. You are saying that this decline is 'cause of something that came up after a good chunk of these kids were out of their formative years. You are basing. This on like the elder, and there is a small decline. Not the dramatic decline, but there is a small decline between elder millennials and younger millennials. You are basing this not the, they're basing it off of the idea that it's something that didn't come around until these kids were like They're also pacing it off of when they got tested at five. No, they're still looking at some of them later, uh, from your age group, and they're not seeing any, what they're seeing is no. So previously, like you are one of the weird ones where your IQ at five is not your iq. Now, let's be honest. Um, they're seeing declines in IQs from that group that was tested. With autistic kids in 2010, their dec, their IQ at five is better than their IQ when they're your age. Severe trauma does Steph. No, actually P uh, TBI does not do anything to your iq. I. You know, I, I, I am just, I, I, I, you know, this is making the dumbest animal on the planet look smarter than every single scientist, every single human on the planet. Why aren't the orcas being the top dog? Seriously? but you can see where I'm questioning this idea that it is specifically just one thing and I'm wondering. Is there enough evidence to claim, oh, it is just 'cause the iPad made you stupid. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. And since AI for these elders, gen Zers. 96, 97, 98, you know, to, oh, I dunno, like the entirety. Pretty much of Gen Z's life. Um, they didn't have ai. So how is AI a problem? I mean, where is, ' cause they need an escape goat and they don't want to say, I'm sorry, it's our fault because we did bad. Research. I'm not disagreeing that, uh, AI is, I mean chat, GPT is probably a little dumbing down. I'm not saying iPads aren't dumbing down. I'm saying there's got to be more going on. You are seeing kids overstimulated. You're seeing kids go with IEPs that are allowing them to get away with doing nothing. You're seeing teachers who have too many kids with IEPs in their classes. You're seeing mainstream classes with over 90% of the mainstream class having IEPs. You cannot do that as a teacher. Typical people, um. You, and this is not me batching teachers. How the heck do you in a class of 30 kids deal with 20 to 28 IEPs? You can't, an individual education plan is an individual education plan. You've gotta keep it indi, I mean, 20 to 28. I've known teachers who their entire classes on an IEP. I'm just gonna humanity. I'm sorry, the whale did the evolution cooler. They did a cooler, they became a cool thing. We are just kinda like they waited safe on the planet. The whales did a cooler, decides two have babies that come out looking, you. How How much of this is also, and this is not bashing on any specific parent I know, but a bunch of them I work with when, when I'm doing IEP stuff for the job and I'm like, Hey, who is actually your child's therapist? They can't tell me who their child's therapist is 'cause they've never actually interacted with their child's therapist. You know. I've signed to think Kael those dragons did something right? All I'm saying is there seems to be a lot of data points that were ignored by these um, researchers that I think they need to not ignore. I I mean, but if they don't know them, then their eagles are gonna plummet. Mommy, these poor, poor little baby scientists just want yours. Did that sound dumbed down enough? Maybe. Alright, well, uh, welcome back to, uh, the podcast. We kind of went full fledge in. Um, we will obviously be doing dance stuff, uh, the studio's doing great. So to end on a good note, studio's doing great. Uh, we are going to be offering 60 plus classes this fall. Um, did you not realize we're offering 60 plus classes until right now? You know I love you. I know there were bad. Bad things in that era, but why am I suddenly thinking even though there were bad things in that era, I suddenly wanna live in the 13 hundreds because the 13 hundreds, at least in have that we have in 21st century. I'll literal go for all the crap in 13 hundreds. I think, um, so in other good news, the studio starting our pre-professional program, the Golden Chrysalis, because we decided it's all kill me. Any of my mentors or friends that I know, please. So, um, those of us who can't spell Hi me went, oh look, let's do the golden chrysalis. And I'm the one spelling it nonstop and it is not a common word to spell. Yay. So if you see it messed up anywhere on the internet or imprint material. Hi, my name's Amanda. I have disc graph yet, and uh, that leads to spelling issues. Also Miss Chloe, if you're listening to this. I would just like to mention how my mother blame you for the blame to my friends. Please kill me. Please, please, please. We are, we're gonna do our first rehearsal for a lot of these kids. It'll be their first time on stage ever for the golden chrysalis. You guys are like, do I have to do recital? Um, where we've got a golf tournament here. I dunno how this happened. I, I am rolling with life. we've got the golf tournament coming up in August. We have your birthday pickleball tournament for the studio. It's gonna be fun. Um, and so, yeah, uh, Friday we will have a, uh, podcast on Friday and we will be getting back into doing this on a regular basis 'cause it is fun to sit and have these discussions with you. Lita. I, it is. I like it. Shall we wrap it up? Yes. All right, so where can they find everything? For the podcast? On the web's Leta Uh, I, I don't know. I don't run it. at lead's tap styles run any of my own stuff. At Lead US Tap styles on Facebook and YouTube. Um, we have Facebook. We have a Facebook, uh, we have a Facebook group. You, you should come join the group except for you don't run your own Except if you're my friends. wanna, um, on Insta. If you look at at Lead US tap styles, it's just you not the podcast. Sorry. Um, TikTok at Lead US Top Style podcast. Website leads, tap styles, blah, blah, blah. It. The website also says where people can see you, like for meet and greets and for, uh, and the shows around town. And, uh, hopefully here around the country again soon. All right, so everyone, enjoy your day and we'll talk to you later. Right, Lita, bye bye.