Gardner's Multiple Intelligence

This past weekend at the graduation reception in the fitness center I thought it would be appropriate to I introduce my Moma to Dr. Wigglesworth. Especially sense Dr. Wigglesworth was the only professor of mine I could find in the massive herd of people. Some how we started talking about what my personal intelligence was based on the self assessment exel program we all took. I remembered I was highest in kinesthetic and interpersonal and my lowest was spatial-visual. When my mom heard this she was like really? She continued to explain how in kindergarten I was having issues understanding what was being written on the board and reproduce it on my piece of paper. When my parents would help me with my homework at night they would realize that something was not clicking, and confronted the teacher about my lack of understanding. The teacher would insist there was nothing wrong, I was doing great in school, getting along with the other students great, and there was no need for them to worry about me. My parents spoke with the teacher a number of times throughout the year and it was always the same, "Theresa is doing fine" attitude. Finally with a couple months left in the year the teacher contacted my mom and dad and told them I would have to repeat kindergarten. My parents nearly went ballistic because they were very upset they were never taken seriously when they brought these issues up to them, and they thought it would not be feel to me to rip me away from my freshly made friendships in kindergarten. My parents felt instead of just falling me, I should be tested, because clearly if the teacher had not realized I was not up to part until now, I was doing something right in school. I was tested by the school, and alas, I was diagnosised with a spatial-visual problem, and they also discovered I was able to adapt to my lack of spatial-visual by observing what was going on around me and figure out what I needed to do by following what others were doing.
When I heard this, I was blown away because 1. I thought the reason I almost failed kindergarten was because when I sing the ABC's at the very end I sing "X, Y, and Z, thus my teacher told me I put an extra "n" in because I probably said X, Y, n' Z. 2. Because this quality is still present in where I am lacking intelligence. Haha, I guess I have improved it slightly, but I am assuming more than anything I have learned to adapt my lacking spatial-visual skills.
I think the main point I took from this is that even if an individual does not seem strong in one area or "smart" it might not be the individual, it might be more attributed to the fact that they do not respond well to the methods used to instruct and teach them.