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Autism assessment with moderately high IQ

Touay
over 1 year ago

Not sure how to ask this without sounding like a complete *** ... so I'll just ask it...

I am waiting for my autism assessment (I already know I am) and am wondering if there is such a thing as someone who specializes in assessing hi IQ people. (I have done a few IQ tests but the one I generally quote is the ed-psych administered wechsler test i did when i was being assessed for dyslexia in school - 132 ... and yes, i am).

My concern is that, on a good day, i am great at masking (as far as I can tell i suppose). I can be articulate, polite, friendly and funny.

I have to think that the way I will present is vastly different to someone without the good fortune to have an IQ like mine.

I score VERY high on the autism tests and show many of the autism traits ... but I have masked so long, I don't know how to turn it off.

from my research, it is a concerned shared by many; "how will they see past the mask?".

So there are two questions;

1. are there people who specialize in assessing people like me?

2. What is the advice on helping people see past the mask?

Any advice would be gratefully received. ... and please feel free to call me a ***! :-)

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  • over 1 year ago

    i dunno i dont believe in iq.... to me a high iq just means your really good at maths...because literally all that seems to be on iq tests is a constant barage of complicated maths questions, that are designed to make you have to work out and be pressured by the timer while having to work out a really long to work out math question.

    if your bad at maths? ... then sorry cant do maths means 0 iq apparently as you may be unlucky to be hit with a hard maths question you cant answer and you dont wanna cheat by doing multiple choice selection and want to work it out yourself but you cant do it and the time runs out lol

    so IQ doesnt exist anyway.

  • over 1 year ago in reply to Caelus

    also is there a accountability for a deviation in IQ?

    you say your 132 IQ.... why is that fixed like that?
    if you retook the test and it had different questions you may not be able to answer them as correct or fast then you may get 120 iq... or you may answer better and faster and be 150 iq.... this is another flaw in iq tests and the concept of iq, because your iq cannot be fixed, it would be different each time. therefore it would need to be more a variable number range instead.

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  • over 1 year ago in reply to Caelus

    also is there a accountability for a deviation in IQ?

    you say your 132 IQ.... why is that fixed like that?
    if you retook the test and it had different questions you may not be able to answer them as correct or fast then you may get 120 iq... or you may answer better and faster and be 150 iq.... this is another flaw in iq tests and the concept of iq, because your iq cannot be fixed, it would be different each time. therefore it would need to be more a variable number range instead.

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