Are You Twice-Exceptional?

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Certainly I have strengths and weaknesses, some of which are very likely down to ASD. But I don't know of anybody who doesn't.

I don't think I am exceptional in any way.

I do good at things that I enjoy doing. Horribly at most things involving a social aspect or math. There are things like reading analogy clocks that I struggle a lot with it doesn't make me feel very intelligent.

How does one really even gage one's abilities?

I understand.

I guess.I wasn't explaining myself clearly my apologies. I.mean that.I don't believe I am.

The one IQ test I ever took placed me at 80, so I don't think so. It was an online test, so very likely it wasn't a good one. Idk. (My stepdad told me that he didn't think it was accurate, that I was definitely smarter than an IQ of 80, etc.)

Well I was tested and placed in the gifted program in elementary school and then in middle school and high school, I took advanced classes, so I would say I am twice-exceptional.

I would not be surprised if my giftedness is why nearly all of the signs of me being autistic were overlooked because like I remember so often whenever I was struggling in some way (in some ways that are clearly now relating to autism and other times not relating to autism), I was basically told that I shouldn't have these problems because I was 'gifted' and therefore could just deal with them myself.

Like bruh yeah I was in the gifted program and all that jazz but I was also literally still a child??? Being gifted doesn't mean I didn't struggle and have difficulties.

I've already posted in this thread on my old account but it was GF's view of me.

I deffo have executive functioning deficits.

As for gifted, I can pee standing up without getting my shoes wet....oh wait.....never mind

I'm in a fairly positive mood so I'll say yes. I have ASD + schizophrenia + probable dyspraxia. This is from averaging psychometrician created and/or normed tests. Would likely be higher doing a composite, but I lack the necessary info to do so.

I'm definitely twice-exceptional since my diagnosis, but before that I was just a gifted child who couldn't do basic things properly. My friend said I was the smartest stupid person she'd ever met. When I first told my mum I thought I might be autistic, she said I might just be one of those geniuses who's great at some things but not very good at others

I think I lucked out because I'm gifted at a lot of things tbf, I just think too much and get in my own way. When life was ruled by school and academic achievements were the marker you were measured against, I really had it all (although I was miserable and f****d up then too when I think about it). The only thing I wasn't good at in school was PE, time management and regulating my own emotions lol. I got better at athletics; the other two, not so much.

Definitely, when you are labelled as gifted, your other issues get overlooked and brushed to the side, particularly if you are a quiet and compliant student (and, anecdotally, a girl).

^ Maybe it was to see if you were gifted. Orrrr maybe it was to see if you were special in another way


I was in gifted and talented in primary school, but when we went into high school we got tested again. I scored so high that the special ed lady took me out of class to tell me, and it was one of the weirdest memory experiences of my life. I got called out of chemistry and then she told me it was about the test, and then ??????? something happened, and then I went back into class and my friend asked what it was about and I realised I had no idea. Like I couldn't remember it at all, like there was a block in my brain. I only have one other memory like that, and it was a traumatic one lol, so who the f**k knows what that was about. I was out of the room, and then I was back in the room, and I have no idea what transpired. I didn't learn I got a 100 until later.

BUT there is a conspiracy that the gifted and talented programme was used to brainwash or otherwise programme children, so maybe it was that lol. I'm a sleeper agent, wooooOOOooOoOOO.