26 Jan 2010, 3:10 pm
alana wrote:
I also used to test 'gifted' but I seem to be losing IQ points as I age.
Same. I originally tested at above 140 at school, and now I'm around 135. Then again, it has been 20 years
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27 Jan 2010, 10:01 pm
MathGirl wrote:
anneurysm wrote:
INTJ/above average/subclinical
Diagnosed with Asperger's & PDD-NOS officially at 7.
Re-evaluated by psychiatrists at 19...told me there was nothing clinically significant but that I had "anxiety issues".
Hmm, you never told me that you were re-evaluated... was it for university? Why did you get re-evaluated?Diagnosed with Asperger's & PDD-NOS officially at 7.
Re-evaluated by psychiatrists at 19...told me there was nothing clinically significant but that I had "anxiety issues".
And, I think you're INFJ, not INTJ, You match the INFJ profile perfectly, in my opinion.
As for me, it's ENTJ/above average/Asperger's. I've never had my IQ formally tested, but I will upon my entry to university sometime before September. I'm sure it's above average, though, as a few people have told me that they suspect that I have a "high IQ". I took the online test 2 times and got around 135 both times. So if my official score comes up above 130, I'm gifted, but I'll just put above average for now.
I'm actually borderline INFJ/INTJ...taken variants of the full test a few times and have gotten each answer equally. Actually...personally I would agree with you in that I'm an INFJ.
And I got reevaluated just before I started university as I was having problems with anxiety and depression. This consisted of a hospital stay of about a week...and strangely, the team of doctors there came to the conclusion that I "outgrew" my AS and that I didn't have any clinically significant issues. Of course, I disagree with them.
27 Jan 2010, 11:31 pm
anneurysm wrote:
And I got reevaluated just before I started university as I was having problems with anxiety and depression. This consisted of a hospital stay of about a week...and strangely, the team of doctors there came to the conclusion that I "outgrew" my AS and that I didn't have any clinically significant issues. Of course, I disagree with them.
How can a high-end ASD professional have diagnosed you with Asperger's, and then later on the doctors were saying that you "outgrew" AS? You're not really that socially awkward anymore, and yet it seems that you were a textbook case as a child. Technically, you cannot outgrow a neurological condition, and yet the DOCTORS said that you outgrew it. This contradiction baffles me to no end. I simply don't get it.
28 Jan 2010, 12:08 am
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28 Jan 2010, 12:32 am
28 Jan 2010, 4:03 am
MathGirl wrote:
anneurysm wrote:
And I got reevaluated just before I started university as I was having problems with anxiety and depression. This consisted of a hospital stay of about a week...and strangely, the team of doctors there came to the conclusion that I "outgrew" my AS and that I didn't have any clinically significant issues. Of course, I disagree with them.
How can a high-end ASD professional have diagnosed you with Asperger's, and then later on the doctors were saying that you "outgrew" AS? You're not really that socially awkward anymore, and yet it seems that you were a textbook case as a child. Technically, you cannot outgrow a neurological condition, and yet the DOCTORS said that you outgrew it. This contradiction baffles me to no end. I simply don't get it.If you saw that apple is "falling" upwards instead of downwards, you will acknowledge it fell upwards, even if you don't know why.
Even though Asperger is understood to be neurological, there is no blood test for it, so it is defined in terms of BEHAVIORAL symptoms. So, if the behavior of a child shows Asperger and the behavior of an adult doesn't, the doctors have no choice but to say exactly what they seen. If you put these two together, the logical summary of it would be "outgrew asperger". So they have to say it, as much as it makes no sense.
28 Jan 2010, 8:32 am
29 Jan 2010, 4:02 am
MathGirl wrote:
How can a high-end ASD professional have diagnosed you with Asperger's, and then later on the doctors were saying that you "outgrew" AS? You're not really that socially awkward anymore, and yet it seems that you were a textbook case as a child. Technically, you cannot outgrow a neurological condition, and yet the DOCTORS said that you outgrew it. This contradiction baffles me to no end. I simply don't get it.
Well actually we use to say "hard-wired" to mean a neurological condition. But the brain is not hard-wired, is soft-wired. Like people after brain trauma can (with time) recover some function the same is possible within the autism spectrum. Untill around 16 y-old the brain change and grow. At age 3 and around age 8-12 it goes trough a lot of change that can actually change your condition.
Also autism is determinated by symptoms and until DMS-V (they'll introduce 2 further cathegory: subclinical and "normal variant") you need a "real, tangible impairment" to be DXed.
When I was young I had time of selective mutism, crazy melt-down all day long, and so on. At that time a psyc would have DXed me with Asperger and probably other kind of disorder (I also had other problems). Now, at 27, I have a wife, a work, 2 childrens, some friends, I'm respected in my working environment. Obviosly I'm still "weird", my friend always say: "you are a mad scientist", but I'm far from having any clinical impairment, so if you strictly read DMS-IV I can't have Asperger. By the way, today I'll see my psyc.. we will see what she tell
29 Jan 2010, 4:56 am
Nightsun wrote:
By the way, today I'll see my psyc.. we will see what she tell
No offense meant, just curiocity, but can you tell me why you have to see your psyc, if you have recovered from all the problems you used to have when you were younger? Do you see your psyc on regular basis? Do you have any CURRENT diagnosis for which you see him/her?
29 Jan 2010, 9:25 am
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29 Jan 2010, 11:27 am
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