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carlos55
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11 Nov 2019, 3:14 pm

Jakki wrote:
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@loveandotherdrugs Would you say a person is disordered if they are very intelligent , but need quite a lot of support to maintain their independence due to executive functioning difficulties and poor practical intelligence ?

This is a most practical way, have ever seen this particular , set of circumstances worded .!


Depends what you mean by intelligent? great memory, good at maths?, intelligence is probably made up of many things, one of the most important being cause & effect.


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11 Nov 2019, 6:24 pm

carlos55 wrote:
Jakki wrote:
firemonkey wrote:
@loveandotherdrugs Would you say a person is disordered if they are very intelligent , but need quite a lot of support to maintain their independence due to executive functioning difficulties and poor practical intelligence ?

This is a most practical way, have ever seen this particular , set of circumstances worded .!


Depends what you mean by intelligent? great memory, good at maths?, intelligence is probably made up of many things, one of the most important being cause & effect.


Uhmmmm....
Yaaah..... :wink:


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