• Replies 5 replies
  • Subscribers 82 subscribers
  • Views 928 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

Am I alone in this?

Deleted User

From as far back as I can remember I've been the cognitive equivalent of the person that bats >.310 in the minor league but <.230 in the major league. Is it due more to the ASD or the schizophrenia/schizoaffective? I'm not at all sure. League= baseball.

I'm an autistic + sz/sz-a person. I blew hot and cold when it came to exams. Based on what my father told me,a few years ago  I underperformed significantly at school.

What I'm talking about is the practical l use of intelligence. I basically suck at it. I'd be up 's**t creek without a paddle', as my late wife would've put it, without the help and support I get. That's contrasted with being a member of several high IQ groups. They're more to do with vanity, getting a short lived ego boost and having something I'm not totally crap at than actually doing anything useful IRL.
  • in reply to Kev N
    Kev N said:
    I joined several High IQ groups as advised by my social worker and it helped me in no way.

    The standard,online,ones aren't much good. There's very little traffic on them. It needs more than a group of people sharing a high level of intelligence to create an active and vibrant online community..  Several  interest based FB groups have been created, but I'm not aware of them improving things much.

  • I can fully relate, with an an IQ of 150 and also having ADHD and Bipolar. I have an immense intelligence when applied, the problem is getting me to apply. My attention span is short and if Its not a subject I'm enthusiastic about its a waste of my time. 

    I joined several High IQ groups as advised by my social worker and it helped me in no way.

    I've also always found that my intelligence often makes me reluctant to take any medication for my mental health or ADHD. Between all the chaos and noise In my thoughts I often feel the greatest of my intelligence and most out of the box innovative ideas float around Between them. When I take any medication which dulls my thoughts or stops them bouncing, I find myself lost for solutions to puzzles that face me. 

  • in reply to Dawn

    I'm 65. The days of it doing much for me have long since ended. I'm typical of many dxed first with severe mental illness and much later ASD (In my case first saw a pdoc in 1973, dxed with ASD in 2019)in that  the mental health services had all too often behaved in a hypercritical and negative way towards us. 

    It took moving to a new area to be near my (s) daughter to get better support. My (s) had asked me to move near her umpteen times since her mother died, but  the fear of change made me say 'no'. It took being told my block of flats was going to be knocked down  to persuade me to move

    I would not have got the Asperger's/ASD if I'd stayed where I was. I 'd mentioned ASD time and time again only to be  ignored. There was this expectation that if I did well at x I'd automatically do well at  y. Failure to live up to that was treated like a character flaw.. It's too late to make a real difference in terms of fulfilling any potential I had,but I don't hold that against the MH team here. They're kind,polite and supportive. They don't treat me  like I'm some dog poo they've just stepped in.

    My (s) daughter who has worked in the caring profession for over 25 years  was aware that although I was very intelligent in some ways I was absolute klutz in other ways.

    I

    I fitted the third category best.. 

  • I only have a remedial knowledge of US Sports. However, Baseball is an Aladdin's Cave of Statistics. Same, in this country, with Cricket. (another sport I only have remedial knowledge of)

    Sometimes, Intelligent People get screwed over. The Work environment demands 'Team Players'. We end up in mind-numbing roles; which don't feed our soul.

  • Humm....sounds like you have a high IQ and are still unsure how to make it fit and do something for you.

    If it's any consolation, they thought I was thick at school because my dyslexia caused a delay in reading (although I was desperate to read) and my spelling sucks.. until I blew the IQ test out of the ball park and teachers started to realise I could forensicaly dissect any concept I was presented with and absorb oral foreign language super fast.

    Hmmm...not a vanity thing here, you just need to understand your gift v. Challenge and find an outlet for the gifts and a compensatory strategy for the challenges.

    We all just have to go with and make the most of what we've got. We are supposed to contribute somehow. Hey, Einstein couldn't add up a column of figures! Some speculate he was dyslexic, dyscalculate or autistic.. can't diagnose the dead, but he sure wasn't neurotypical. 

    Find your thing and smile.