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Intelligence fears

Pennie_Jane

I seem to be obsessed with my intelligence, or lack thereof. 

Is this an autism thing? 

I'm not stupid, I can:

  • Turn my hand to most practical things
  • Build Ikea furniture with relative ease
  • Use a computer and all the MS products with proficiency, which many of my colleagues can't. 

But I convince myself that I am stupid. 

Much of it, I think, comes down to understanding social situations and I find when I watch social media posts that I don't grasp well what people are going on about, whether it be in writing or verbally.  The latter issue is what makes me feel hugely flawed. 

Anyone?

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  • have you ever had an IQ test? mine was measured at 123. My social skills were very deficient growing up and to some extent still are. Intelligence and understanding of social situations are 2 completely different things. Maybe you should get your IQ measured professionally. It's a very imperfect proxy for intelligence which is itself a hard thing to define. But its a lot better than judging it based off your social skills.

  • in reply to Peter

    you should try the new IQ tests they made to be politically correct and sensitive to people of none western culture..... i got like a iq score of over 9000 on those ones lol

    you pretty much just get stuff like.... which one of these shapes is a square? lol

  • in reply to Caelus

    Ah well mine was carried out by the dyslexia society who unsurprisingly found I had dyslexia but failed to suggest I be assessed for autism.

  • in reply to Pennie_Jane

    i think its more the fact when you have something you dont realise it because its your normal.... i didnt realise i was short sighted, everything was fuzzy and i couldnt copy the stuff off the board because i couldnt see it, everyone thought i was stupid for that but i simply couldnt see, but i thought my sight was normal so that was my normal and i thought everyone couldnt see it either and it was fuzzy for them but they was just smart and magically knowing what to write from the fuzzy board lol

  • in reply to Peter

    Yeah, I've just been diagnosed with dyslexia and visual processing disorder.  It's no wonder I've found life difficult.  I've got ASD, CPTSD, possible ADHD (awaiting assessment), dyslexia and anxiety.  All of which went unnoticed through my formative years and up until my 40s.  I just kept my mouth shut while suffering inside.

  • in reply to Caelus

    I know this is a joke, but the spelling of Welsh is actually quite consistent with how it is pronounced, it is English spelling which puts letters in odd places!

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