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Tollorin
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10 Jan 2014, 8:02 pm

I think you may have learning difficulties, as your interests hint a high intelligence, which would be masked by them. Also, can the results of your IQ be in percentile?



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11 Jan 2014, 12:46 am

My IQ is low. In the Borderline Intellectual Functioning low. With the various tests I have completed, my scores were between 78-85. While I agree that with some people the IQ test is worthless, for others it does matter. I can't figure out simple tasks, my reading comprehension is terrible, I don't have a job or drive a car, basic facts I don't know, etc. While I excel in psychology (not in school, but self-taught) all other subjects I am basically like a person with Anencephaly at. Brainless. I am only good at specialized knowledge. One or two subjects. My mom keeps on saying, "Its because you knew what they were testing you for, you scored low because you were so nervous." That isn't true because my first IQ test was at 5 years old. While the first IQ test could have been low due to my lack of speech (saying very little), the ones later on in life with full vocabulary it shouldn't have been lowered. Its just now that my reading comprehension improved but that was due to constant reading the news and reading all day long. There are times that I regress however into an earlier state of being.



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11 Jan 2014, 1:19 am

To get through "boring books", find audiobooks of them. Listen to the audiobooks when you are playing video games or similar activities. Repeat the process several times. You should be able to understand it better each time you listen.


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Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 82 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 124 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical


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11 Jan 2014, 11:04 am

LoveNotHate wrote:
Quantum wrote:

Or is I.Q just some random s*** we humans have come up with?


Random, near-meaningless.

What made me so smart was because people laughed at me, and made jokes about how dumb I was, because of my learning disabilities. I wanted to prove them wrong and prove I was smart.


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Drive can play more of a factor in success then anything else in my opinion. You can be dumb as dirt but if you dedicate your life to something you will become a master in that one thing. You can be the smartest man in the world but if you can't focus or have no drive you will never accomplish anything. Don't ever let anyone or anything ever say you can't do something. Well, unless its a police officer telling you to freeze or he will shoot...