Post-assessment thoughts (finally got the result today).

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No, I didn't say that I discounted any insight one can glean from IQ subtests, so I didn't mean that.
I meant only that I am really good at Bejeweled and really bad at Flappy Bird and pretty good at Fruit Ninja.
For me personally, I doubt that I can get insight into my intellectual abilities from IQ subtests that I wouldn't get from ackshuly doing the intellectual activities.
Another thing about IQ tests is how smart are the people making the questions, maybe they are not that smart, and the questions are stupid.
I haven't found psychologists to be a smart group of people.
Also, many abilities are never measured on IQ tests, like visual-spatial skills.
None of the subtests measure it.
The closest is block design, but there is too much interference of motor there.

Do update us on the subtest scores when you get them.

I was recently tested myself, and I had a 36 point difference between my verbal comprehension and perceptual reasoning scores! I rather expected a huge gulf between the two - I excel at book learning/reading/writing, not learning visually - but it was still nice to see it verified with a number.

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I learned one other interesting thing while participating in the ASD research study. Well, actually, I learned a lot of interesting things, but this one in particular may apply to the situation.

I mentioned to the ASD researcher that I thought I came across as being fairly neurotoypical. The ASD researcher told me that it is not uncommon for people to not recognize how they ?come off?. More so, even if that person has the opportunity to watch a video of themselves interacting, they still would not recognize how they ?come off?.[/quote]

My god...I just like two minutes ago told my husband something like this about myself. I had just completed the ados. I was just playing with a pen and said to my husband that I didn't realize how much I gauge my behaviour around other people..to a certain extent. I'm conscious and aware and try to be "different" and blend in, and normal and repress things like being suddenly loud, or weird, lol. Anyhow i just said I wonder what I looked like in the assessment because I didn't have one little thought about them or me, or gauging anything which rarely happens. I felt like a young child, the person I was without walls and defense mechanisms and all those things. I said I wonder if I watch a video of me holding and twirling that pen and looking at the black lines really close to my eye while trying to think and talk to them...what did it look like? Would I blend in? Was it obvious "weird"? I always want to see myself on video (but HATE if anyone else video or audio records me) so I can see. I have been so surprised at some lately that I'm like WHO is that???

Well frick. I obviously can't even post a quote on here haha.

I just got my assessment results back on Thursday. I have a learning disability mainly in the area of visual and contextual processing. All of my WAIS scores were reported in quartiles. My scores were so scattered that I did not get any overall IQ measure.

I don't know what "smart" is. Even though these tests don't test for everything, I still find them extremely useful for assessing my abilities in the areas that they do measure. The main problem is not the tests, but the validity with which the skill that they measure is defined. Any test measures something. A "bad" test for a certain ability would be a test that actually measures something else, like administering an arithmetic task in order to measure visual sequencing skills.

I don't think IQ tests say much about me. I have a 26 point gap between my verbal and visual-spatial IQ. I find that weird because I don't notice any problems with my visual-spatial skills in real life. I only notice visual-spatial problems when I'm being tested. I actually did good in geometry when I was in school. I'm also pretty good at sculpture.

I did some research about IQ tests and I found out that anxiety impairs visual-spatial skills, processing speed and short-term memory. That explains why I only did well at the verbal tests. Another problem with that IQ test was my lack of attention span, brain fog and the fact that I just had music lessons.