Has anyone been diagnosed with anything like retardation

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I was wondering if anybody on this site was dianosed or misdiagnosed
with Mental Retaration. It could be from a school physcologist or some
idiot who never hard of Aspergers Syndrom.

I was tested for fragile x syndrom like 3 times, all negative, but never diagnosed it. Doctors thought I had some form of retardation, thats why I got tested so many times.

I was given the WISC and I tested nearly mentally ret*d in mathematical reasoning, and above-average to gifted in everything else.

I don't know what the teachers thought I was doing with the books I was reading well before kindergarten, but they thought I was ret*d. Mom never let me know until several years after my college degree. When I marched off to my special class, I thought I was going to a higher class and went proudly! Then I was tested in the fifth grade I think and the school found out I was the brightest student they ever had. Or at least the one who was best at taking IQ tests.

How could fragile X be diagnosed without a blood test?

bc1 said:

that would explain it- the test i took when i was a kid included artistic intelligence, and the one i took this year was just math and reading... which means my second score is more meaningful.

When I was kid I went through one kind of psychiatric/psychological evaluation after another.
People thought I was ret*d because I wasn't speaking at an age when most kids can make
full sentences, there was talk of having me placed in an institution such as Willowbrook.
Eventually I learned to speak and I developed most of the necessary skills for living.

I've been through this topic before:

foreignwoman wrote:

Hello! I also thought I was weird, not in touch with my feelings, frustrated about not being able to connect to people and not knowing why, was called a freak as well at times, and rather hurt by that , didn't think of myself as shy but others did so things just didn't add up Now luckily they do, for me at least. In the workplace people are also a bit mystified, still saying I'm not a good communicator but at least I'm an effective communicator (so I still don't see what the problem is ) But anyway, the struggle to be accepted continues, it just doesn't drain me so much anymore.

I was described as "ret*d", "Brain damaged", or just "different" by many people when I was growing up.
I was always acting silly or "shutting down", I had (and still have) bad motor coordination, stereotypical
motor habits, emotional and mental "meltdowns", and many sensory issues and other co-morbidities,
(ie: tactile hypersensitivity, migraines and bowel problems). Yet I learned to read before the other
students. I excelled in taking math and science exams, but slow in everything else. I was constantly
bullied by classmates. I survived, I graduated high school, learned a trade, got a job, but I was always
the Outsider looking in. I first learned about Asperger Syndrome, and "Higher Functioning" Autism
through various science journals, through WikiPedia I found out about WrongPlanet.
After forty something years I found a home.
By the way Foreignwoman, acceptance among the "normals" and "Neuro-Typicals" is overrated.
"WrongPlanet" is the "Right Address". Welcome!

When I was very young (around 3 or 4) my parents took me to a psychologist. This was before I started school. The psychologist was pretty nasty to my parents especially when I started playing around with the things on her desk. When the psychologist got upset over this I threw a pretty bad tantrum. The psychologist then states that this child is ret*d! My mom flips out and my dad asks my mom to go outside. The psychologist explains there were many forms of retardation. She refers us to a Psycharist who we did not end up seeing because that psycharist got very sick and died. We saw other clinicians after this.

When I did start school (4 years old) a psycharist over there thought I might of had ADHD. So he prescribed Ritalin to me. When I started on Ritalin I became like a zombie. As soon as this started to occur I was taken off Ritalin.

Yes I was at school. I am HFA diagnosed at 30. I have been IQ tested twice at 138 and 141. Tested at 24.

No never diagnosed as ret*d...Was kinda recognised as having above average intelligence at an early age in school..BUT have been called "ret*d" by people my whole life...both jokingly and seriously...