IQ and AS/HFA; comparison of verbal and performance

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HI, I am a new user heer. I was recently diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. I have a high level of curiosity in cognitive psychology. According to the WASI IQ test administered by a school psychologist my results are as follows:

Verbal IQ: 148
Performance: 107
Full Scale IQ: 131

Please share your IQ. As I previously stated I am very interested with cognitive abilities. I am 13 years old and attain borderline mediocre grades. I have known my peers to blurt out "You're a genius!' and things like that. People have perceived an elitist attitude from me and I am conscious of that. I often have strange methods of solving mathematical problems and often come up with my own simplified formulas. I also have Tourette's Syndrome.

hi Jayman, welcome here

according to dx & discharge papers only a "strong suspicion" of AS, as "it is
very difficult to definitely determine a developmental disorder forty years post date"

i suppose i would be quite similar to you, without the exact figures

according to the evaluating psychologist, i (T)IQ-tested "around 130", presumably higher, "with an impressive vocabulary" and i am, says he,
"in the top two percent"

(the testperson hadn't seen a perfect score on the vocabulary test before)
(i then showed a remarkable down-peak in listing professions, i blame a sudden loss of interest)

so my VIQ would be quite high
no specifics for PIQ

i am not mathematical at all, though

My gap's only 11 points--143 verbal, 132 performance. My weakest point is actually working memory, at only 126 (and tested with me using every mnemonic I know). Smash the "Aspie memory master" stereotype!

I've heard of verbal/performance gaps of 60 or even more. Talk about your scattered skills!

I have my own nearly 60% gap, between verbal comprehension at the 99th percentile (tested with printed words) and comprehension of non-word sounds at the 42nd percentile. That 42 means that functionally when it comes to listening to words I am below average, but when I read them I'm way above--when I listen to somebody talk, my brain's working overtime to understand them by applying the verbal knowledge. Background noise makes everything way worse (I was tested in a quiet room with no distractions)... YOU try listening to a lecture when you have to fill in some of the words from your knowledge of language and vocabulary... On the other hand, when it comes to reading, everything comes through lovely and clear. No wonder correspondence classes stopped me from failing college. Too bad you can't get your whole degree that way. I pray the textbooks are logically organized.

Easily predictable fact: Yes, I'm hyprelexic.

Actually, I've read that working memory tends to be deficient in Aspies, which is why we can get overwhelmed in certain situations and can't always react spontaneously in social settings. There's too much information to process at one moment, and we can't keep all of it straight.

Higher performance IQ than verbal IQ.

Highest scores in working memory and perceptual organization, which are also higher than verbal comprehension.

And also just average to below average grades which confuses professionals. (Don't care, school's over since yesterday, so awesome! Never again!)

Yeah, my strengths definitely lay in the performance/speed area rather than in the verbal reasoning area. I'm diagnosed with AS.

My verbal is around 80 (it was 76 last time)
performance is around 130

This is now; I've had various different scores throughout my life, some really high overall, some really low overall.

I find it intriguing that my interests revolve around math and science yet according to the IQ test I should be better at things that involve verbal skills. BTW does anyone find that when they write it is always to the point and kind of choppy. I am very good at writing things with detail and facts but it is more difficult for me to write about a book for example.

Please continue to post. There have been a huge number of viewers but not many have posted.

Sounds like you might be good at technical writing. I hated creative writing or essays in high school because I wasn't very good at it. In college I took a technical writing class and found that to be fairly easy because it's centered around facts, details and logic. On the job, I wrote many test procedures.

I've never taken an official IQ test. Are there any on-line that anyone actually trusts?

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iqtest . c o m is the best one out there. It is not as reliable as one on paqper but it's close. I scored a 142

iqtest.com - 137

Here's another online one they claim is good.

http://web.tickle.com/tests/uiqnew/

I got 136 on that one. FWIW, I get about the same number on the various online tests. I think I took a paper IQ test when I was in grade school but that was a LONG time ago. I don't think that's done anymore.

iqtest.com = 137

another one = 126

Ravens test 1st time = 120

Ravens 2nd time = 135

www.highiqsociety.org = 119

Last edited by Hashberry on 27 May 2008, 9:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.

iqtest.com i feel is pretty s**t really. They have a total nerve to ask for $9 for the "in depth" analysis.

Try this one people -

www.highiqsociety.org

Last one I had I had a working memory score of 78 and Non-verbal IQ of 124 last February

One I had when I was 15 I had a working memory of 68 and perceptual reasoning score of 138