Am I alone in this?

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From as far back as I can remember I've been the cognitive equivalent of the person that bats >.310 in the minor league but <.230 in the major league. Is it due more to the ASD or the schizophrenia/schizoaffective? I'm not at all sure.

co-morbidity? I have asd but did farily well on exams. If that type of cognition is what you mean?

No, buddy.

San Francisco. Many years ago, as a child, I lived at 3922 Clay street , near the Presidio.

I don't understand your original post. Because I didn't get the reference. I don't know what major and minor leagues mean.

So I'll just refer to your second post -- about how you're contrasted with high IQ yet doesn't translate to practical.


While I'm not one of it, I don't think or believe that you're alone with that.

As an aspie, certainly not alone.
It's a pattern I observed around this forum; particularly those whose comorbidities include dyspraxia in general, if not those with VIQ>>PIQ profiles.

Related to your comorbidities (schizophrenia/schizoaffective), I'm not sure. Maybe. Maybe likely.


Double exceptionalities (those with gifted IQs and while also has any form of disability at the same time) can lean those profiles on more certain extremes -- in cases where one's disability outweighs their high IQ or giftedness.

Usually due to poor accomodations of either or both of an individual's case of untreated/unmanaged disability and poorly nurtured/neglected giftedness.

Typically related to mental health in general, or
cases of conflicting strengths and weaknesses, or cases of crippling overspecialization, or any of those at the same time and complicated.

Lastly... Giftedness actually needs special education for a reason.
Not every high IQ kid becomes an equally high overachiever.

Without cases of double exceptionality, it's to do with upbringing and environment.
Unless the high IQ kid is rich, or is also equally high EQ -- then it won't attain the same high achiever status.

Giftedness is actually the cohort of the rich.
Poor people with giftedness would likely just as suceptible to inherit their otherwise average to low IQ and poverty level ways of survival strategies of living in their respective society if left alone.

But I don't think that's how it is in your case.
So double exceptionality it is.

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I went downhill when Schizophrenia started up when it came to schooling. Before then, I'd do very well in school without trying. So, for me, Autism probably didn't affect much with schooling, other than maybe making me perform less than I did due to not really focusing on the work, even though I still did well.

A high IQ is pretty good for Schizophrenia in the end, even if a lot is taken from you. Functioning seems to be better due to higher levels of insight. It seems to have helped me anyway, and I was diagnosed far, far later than I should have been due to such (only "officially" in 2020).

So no, you're not alone.

I wouldn't say my father was/is ultra rich. He had a fairly good career working for the Foreign office. Good enough to warrant a 'Who's who' entry. Retired as the diplomatic equivalent of a 2 star general. Compared to most I had a privileged upbringing.

I am sorta like that. A member of mensa. Good with book smarts, but weaker on practical day to day stuff. Though not totally helpless. Am an aspie. But dont have the other comorbids you have.

Way back My first school in Bangkok urged my parents to get me tested as they thought I might have what we now call cerebral palsy. That was c1962/1963. I was 5/6 years old. The assessment at Great Ormond street showed that I wasn't. Possible alternatives weren't explored.

Even before the onset of SMI I struggled socially/ was clumsy and badly co-ordinated/had EF difficulties(disorganised and messy)/ was introverted then as a teenager became severely social phobic.




I fit the 3rd group best.

147- 148 iare by averaging the scores. Using https://assessingpsyche.wordpress.com/2 ... eir-parts/ and separating those psychometrician tests into fluid and crystallised gives a range of 150 to a 159.

I was just over the cutoff line to join mensa at 130. You would qualify with room to spare. So if you're going by IQ numbers I would be a knuckle dragging chimp compared to you.



When I was eight I knew all of the planets and their characteristics, but I could barely ride a two wheel bike.

I was 13 when I learnt to ride a 2 wheel bike