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If you have been professionally diagnosed and know your intelligence quotient scores what are they? (no lying)

Depends on the test, and boy, do they vary.

Stanford-Binet: 132 (I've taken that 3 times, and they are all in the 130s)

WAIS-IV: 108
The score on the WAIS-IV was brought way down because of my difficulties with verbal (spoken) processing and slow processing speed, which were below average.

It all makes me wonder if these IQ tests are really worth worrying about. I was an honor student in college and won a fellowship to study graduate genetics. And then washed out the first semester because I couldn't memorize the reams of information in areas I didn't care about, like biochemistry. Which is part of that weird autistic dichotomy, I guess--really skilled in some areas and then hopeless in others. I got A's in subjects I liked, and D's in subjects I didn't like. I would miss out on important deadlines and struggle to finish tests on time (I wasn't diagnosed as ASD until later).

Yea my processing speed was a 93, but nonverbal reasing was a 127 and my verbal inductive was a 136. But they rated my overall at 115. My working memory isnt too swell either.

On nonverbal/non-language Raven's score: 87. My intelligence is repeatedly told as "very smart".

I've taken a few. I can't remember what I got back when I was a kid. It was low though. The last online one (I think it was akin to the Stanford Binnet?) I took most recently was overall 145. I waver a lot on standardized testing though, always have. In taking the GRE, I got around 45th percentile the first two times and only got one wrong on my last time taking it (hence, I'm in grad school now).

As for my diagnosis, I am officially diagnosed with ADHD (though I really don't think I have it), and was suspected by professionals to be somewhere on the spectrum. I am uninterested in seeking a formal diagnosis for this, however, due to the stigma driven by ignorant people, and my distaste for the psychiatrist I used to see about it who wanted me to be full of meds.

Somewhere between 135 and 145, depending on when tested and the test used. Top 5 percent in academic readiness tests like SAT or GRE. And I am ending my working career soon with a stupid job in customer service earning less than what many people are touting as "a living wage."

A comment on the WAIS-R - one of its advantages is that the pattern of abilities in the subtests can be very helpful and meaningful in the hands of a competent interpreter. It could suggest career strengths and weaknesses, or areas to tailor therapies. Just averaging the subtest scores into an overall score kind of misses the unique value of this particular test.

I can't remember exactly, but I think it's in the high 130's to mid 140's.

I never had to study for exams in school and had 80-90% averages my entire time, even though I barely went. I was too stressed to go to school most of the time, so I maybe went 40% of the time to high school in total. Could have skipped a few grades as well.

I've never taken IQ tests as far as I can remember. I kind of have a low opinion of IQ tests in general anyway.
How the heck did you manage to do that well in High School, Andre-Moogle? School stresses me out, too, but I can't seem to do anything about it.

My memory is really good for some reason, I can remember hundreds of days from the year 2000 onward.

Teachers were understanding after my mom and dad pretty much came down on the school for being idiots and non-accommodating. Plus, I was diagnosed when I was 15, so that was 10 years ago.

My long-term memory's quite good, but my short-term memory isn't so good. Well, it's good that your parents were so supportive! Honestly, I think that I've learned more from reading books and being home-schooled than I ever have in four years of high school. Although, I guess I have learned things in other ways too, so maybe it's all worked out in the end.

Whenever I take an IQ test my scores invariably are in the 120-135 range, but on one particular occasion I do recall registering a sub 90 score. I was a C grade student at school with no intellectual gifts demonstrated, thus the latter of the scores is given much greater credence by me.

i took the wisc-iv about a year ago, my overall score was 123. i can't find the thing where the individual scores were written, i think the only thing that was wasn't above average / gifted was my processing speed, it was like 108 or something. the rest of the scores were fairly high. on the visual spatial test the examiner told me that i was the only person to ever solve all of the parts of the test lol. i was surprised at that, cause it didn't seem that hard to me, but apparently it was to other people..