Better to be inept?

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^ I've noticed that far more people being assessed for ASD in the USA are given thorough cognitive tests than occurs in the UK.

Thank you. It matches the score obtained from testing done in the mid 1960s in San Francisco. I was between the ages of 8-11. I had no memory of it, but my father mentioned a score around the 150 mark, and then more specifically '147'.

It now seems to be the case that my spatial intelligence specifically ,rather than my fluid intelligence is a comparative weakness. On innovative tests, that I think have the potential to radically alter the way fluid intelligence currently tends to be assessed(pattern recognition ,spatial,mental rotation.) I scored a very respectable 149 average.

Those known to be high spatial IQ scorers scored relatively low on the tests. That could be because the tests they score well on are very similar to each other,and after a while practice effect comes into play.

Last edited by firemonkey on 23 Mar 2022, 8:09 am, edited 1 time in total.

Indeed, I would definitely agree with the "practice" aspect.

I once scored a 114 on a Weschler's, instead of in the 120's, because I couldn't properly, at the time, explain what a "pariah" was. I knew the definition----but couldn't quite verbalize it properly.

Had I taken IQ tests more frequently, I believe I would have successfully defined "pariah," and received a higher score.

^ I'm better at knowing what a word means vs describing what it means..

Cultural? It's more acceptable for a parent to say their child won 1st place in State track than say their child is in the top 2% for spatial intelligence. My non-ASD mom friends talk all the time about their kids' achievement in swimming, tennis, even chess etc. --- I chime in to congratulate them. Then I share my children's coding, math or verbal skills etc. and it falls flat. They can relate about sports, even chess, but not the "atypical" things I see in my kids. Um. I was in a toxic workplace and it was more acceptable to expound upon one's ability to imbibe many alcoholic beverages than anything i could come up with. Folks would throw out sports teams trivia and everyone would nod their heads but when I mentioned figure skating news, I got blank looks. Perhaps in your case, people on that board relate to ineptness and not strength? (wink)

^It's a forum for those with schizophrenia and other psychoses.Posts about cognitive decline as a result of the schizophrenia/psychosis are a regular occurrence. Every now and then there's a thread about IQ.

I'm sure my cognition has declined over the years from the same, along with the higher cognitive processes involved in executive dysfunction, with it taking a double hit combined with the Autism. I don't particularly care for the "intelligence" aspect, albeit the executive dysfunction is one of the things that bothers me the most in life as it affects so much. I seemed to be quite a bit better with just the Autism when it came to executive dysfunction.

My executive functioning is far from good,especially when it comes to organising and planning. Multi step/sequential tasks are something I definitely struggle with.

Firemonkey, you, kraftiekortie and fnord are all people whose posts I greatly look forward to. I get so many insights and perspectives that I had never considered from reading your posts. I wish there was a "like" button for posts and comments here, I think you might see that a lot of appreciation is hidden. I am worried about cluttering up threads of conversation here with comments like "me too", "great idea", " I never thought of this" and the like. ( or even just posting "like" for example ) .

^ Thank you.