Anyone else have have an intellectual disability?

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I know some people on here are classicaly autistic .

But does anyone have an intellectual disability?

If you do what is it like for you and how would you explain your disability to others?

How does your disability make you feel?

By 'intellectual disability' do you mean an IQ <70 ?

i was a late bloomer, and as an adult i am sure i would test normally. but as a kid on some days i tested normal, and on other test days i scored in the mentally ret*d range, it was suggested back in the day that my parents might wanna institutionalize me but they couldn't afford it and the state wouldn't pay. so i was forced into being mainstreamed into spec. ed for much of my elementary school time. i can tell you that it is tough to be dull of mind, there is no free will when one can't think one's way out of a wet paper conundrum. there is just the dim awareness of a lack of free agency, a dim feeling of inferiority on some of the sharper-thinking days, general confusion. one doesn't see outside of one's own situation, or at least that amount of one's situation that one can describe.

I have always been much better verbally than non-verbally. Unfortunately the only official IQ test I did was when I was 15,when at public school, I was never told the result.

These are scores from more reputable online tests.

Non-verbal

Mensa Hungary adaptive 73
JCTI 77
HRS MAT adaptive 73
JCTI timed 40
Mensa Romania 74
Mensa Sweden 85
MyIQ 65
Open psychometrics 83
TRI 52 67

Verbal

Verbal linguistic 152
Psychometrics vocab part 154
TOLR40 146

I scored in the mildly ret*d range too as a child and in 5th grade I finally scored normal. When I was 8 I scored in the borderline ret*d range. My parents never bought my IQ score because they could tell just by how I would figure things out that there was no way I was ret*d.

Language impairment and language delay does affect your IQ score on the test, same as if you are illiterate, and relying on IQ scores alone can really hurt the child because then they are held back and denied an education like all the other kids and not given enough credit.

Hi Jen - I have a sister who is a decade older than me who I am very close to. She was only diagnosed 5 years ago, and has an intellectual disability. Her story is really something. I can't even begin ... She now owns her own home, has maintained an active life, teaches tai chi, has ballroom danced since the age of 17, drives a car(though it did take many attempts to get her licence, but she never gave up), she has good, decent friends who genuinely care for her and likewise, she is an amazing friend to them. She has a great sense of humour, and I could go on and on ... Let me just say that ID is no barrier to achievement in life, in fact, anyone with ID may well find themselves doing even better than their NT counterparts!

I have a mathematical dyslexia. I can't do simple calculations. I didn't think it was Asperger's because everybody knows math.The weirdest thing is that I have a normal I.Q, I learned to read at 4 years. Currently I only know languages matters, people think that just because I do good essays I'm an expert on mathematics. I've been reproved several times by this matter.

My worst thing with maths was geometry . I was really bad at that.

folks told me i didn't speak until i was about 4. they took me to a kid shrink, who played various mind games with me in order to get me to talk, then he shouted at me, "TALK!!" and i shouted back at him, "NO!!"

I have a slight Intellectual Disability and couldn't cope in mainstream school, I went to a special school instead of high school as there was no way I could have coped.
Mum said when i as little the principle at the school I went to when I was about 5 or 6 years old thought I was mentally ret*d and I had to do a test with putting the right shapes in the holes, mum said I opened up the ball and put the shapes in it.
I don't think the principle said anything after that.
Back then they didn't know anything about Autism so I always thought I was a slow learner.