Lee Ji-young(32) is a borderline intelligent person. Since she started as an intern at an IT company in Mapo-gu, Seoul, on June 17, she has kept a daily ‘work journal’ for five weeks. She wrote once in handwriting on a piece of paper and once more in a Korean file on her laptop. This was to make sure she didn’t forget anything.

  “The company I interned at was developing an AR program, and I understand things slower than most people, so I have to write things down twice and review them in order to work at the same pace.”

  Borderline intelligent people are those with an intelligence quotient (IQ) between 71 and 84. They have cognitive and social difficulties that make learning and working difficult, but they don’t qualify as intellectually disabled and have not been eligible for legal support.

  “I’m not disabled, but I definitely feel like I’m different from everyone else,” says Jiyoung, “I’m slow to learn things, so I couldn’t get a desk job.” This internship was a turning point for Jiyoung. As time went on, she got more comfortable with the work, and some of her ideas were praised as “commercially viable.”

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Source: The JoongAng