Like millions of people around the world, I struggle with a severe learning disability. It often causes me to say things that I regret, it wreaks emotional and financial damage to my friends and family, and costs my employer tens of thousands of dollars a year.

No, it’s not something trendy like ADD or ADHD or even AADD. It’s not something all successful people brag about having, like dyslexia. It’s an embarrassing and rarely mentioned disorder that I have long kept secret, afraid my friends, neighbors and co-workers would find out. I suffer from Stupidity.

No one brags about having Stupidity. There’s no pill you can take for that, there’s no support group, no summer camp. You just have to learn to live with it. Parents that have no problem telling the world their child has ADD or ADHD wouldn’t be caught dead standing up at the PTA meeting and saying, “My kid’s stupid. What special programs have you got for that?”

Even in this modern day and age, Stupidity still carries a stigma with it – some people even believe that stupid people aren’t quite as good as “normal” people – even though we’ve had stupid presidents, stupid socialites, stupid generals, stupid movie stars, stupid bankers and stupid CEOs. Stupidity knows no borders. Many people suffer from Stupidity and don’t even know it – teenagers, for example.