verbal vs performance iq

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At the age of 54 these are my results from a recent WAIS test:
Working memory 78 (9 percentile)
Verbal reasoning 86 (19 pecentile)
Non Verbal reasoning 124 (93 percentile)
(I was very good at geometry as a kid a school and I scored better at perceptive reasoning with the WISC test as a child)


My age was not taken into consideration when I was formally assessed.

my performance scale is fairly good (I've never played for more than 7,000, but we were doing that for free...

I came across the psychological evaluation I underwent when I was 15 (in 1983, long before AS was formally recognized) -- on the Wechsler test I had a verbal IQ of 140 and a performance IQ of 91. Quoting from the evaluation:

"It should be pointed out right at the outset that a fifty point differential between verbal and performance tests is highly unusual, and highly significant. We are dealing here with a profile that is so imbalanced as to unequivacally (sic) point to learning disabilities in the area of visual motor functioning."

That is indeed very unbalanced. Have you ever been diagnosed with a nonverbal learning disability?

Apparently I posted on this thread a whole bunch of times back when it was first posted (a couple of years ago), so I don't think I'll add anything else. That is the only problem I have with resurrecting old threads- it is unsettling to me to think of something to post, then read through the thread and realize that I've already said everything I was going to say, except months or years in the past. Oh well, I guess I'm consistent.

I was eventually studied at age 16 by neurologists, but they made no official diagnosis. About 15 years later I came across the Asperger definition online, and realized I had about 90% of the symptoms.

Funny you should have a Harry Stack Sullivan quote on your message -- he and I come from the same town in upstate NY.

That's cool. What town?

...Norwich.

I grew up in New York as well, but way down at the bottom.

Also, your post count is the same as your age currently. Possibly not by the time you read it, and certainly not if you respond to this post, but oh well.

Verbal: 136
Performance: In the ninties or low 100's
Total: 113

I have a discrepancy between verbal and nonverbal IQ.

Oh, and I'm around 14.

Did I miss something or am I still the only one on this thread with performance over verbal?

No. I have a high performance score and average verbal score.

Apparently, when I was a child, I had a performance/verbal gap that was remarkably huge--so much so that the psychology student who did the IQ test thought he had done something wrong. I still don't have the exact numbers, unfortunately. Verbal was higher (of course). Today the gap has closed to between eight and fifteen points.

according my latest WAIS III test:

VIQ - 88th percentile (≈ 118 @ 15 SD - rarity ≈ 1/9)
PIQ - 99.8th percentile (≈ 144 @ 15 SD - rarity ≈ 1/596)

so i am a PIQ > VIQ with nearly 30-points (≈ 2 SD's) IQ gap

they never calculated my FSIQ (total IQ) for some odd reason.

maybe because it is of no use when having a large gap??

Does anybody else have low working memory but high verbal reasoning score?

I only had a few performance and working memory subtests, which showed that my working memory was very low (ret*d range), but perceptual reasoning block design was in the gifted range, while the picture concepts was average. I never had a verbal test, but I suppose I have a verbal/performance discrepancy, because I was always better at verbal reasoning than non-verbal.

That reminds me, my psychologist once said that when the parents of a learning disabled/different had their child's intelligence tested, and obviously he never calculated Full Scale IQ because of the discrepancy in scores, but he would receive complaint phone calls and emails for it and had to recalculate it but he left an asterisk saying "this is a meaningless number".

I have PIQ > VIQ too. 14 point difference. There was a 9 point difference between processing speed subtest and two of my other scores in the PIQ sub tests (processing speed being the low one ).