You don't need to have a high IQ to succeed in academia unless you pursue some hard PHD, you just need to be above average and socially savvy.
Everybody is not made equal, but almost everybody finds their tribe. People all over the world live satisfying lives with a below-average IQ, your life is not worth any less just because you can't do abstract mathematics.
School is sortof IQ test but mainly its so you can feel like you are educated like a noble would be while working at mcdonalds, yesman or even some paper pushing extraveganza,
This is the real blackpill. Most people you can name have sunk an unbelievable portion of their youth and borrowed time on this earth into such a rip-off literal con.