WAIS IV: how was your block design performance?

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Ja. Processing speed was also my weakest area.

To practice the skill that Block Design requires here is our online game: https://auti-mate.com/#/game/1

I always did relatively poorly in block design, but usually pretty good in coding.

I went from slightly below average when I was 15, to average as an adult in block design.

I wasn't told my score but I did pretty bad with it partly because of a rare low vision disorder, problems with my brain processing things I do see visually, & a tremor disorder that acts up when doing things with fine motor-skills. I'm sure this was one of the reasons Aspergers got ruled out for me because I didn't fit the typical Aspie pattern.

Wow, didn't expect this thread to come back to life almost a year later I guess I can now comment on my own scores. My nonverbal IQ came out to be 94, verbal was 134, creating a full-scale IQ of 111, although the size of the gap between my two subscores makes the FSIQ kind of meaningless. My block design score was a 7, putting me in the 16th percentile, but my vocabulary score was a 19, in the 99.9th percentile. Got to love the huge autistic ability gap!

I don't think that it is necessarily true that people with Aspergers are better at block design. When I took the WAIS as part of a diagnostic assessment, my block design was not my strong point- I scored around 115 I think on that- but I don't remember exactly. My verbal IQ was higher than my performance IQ by over 10 points. I think that it may differ between HFA and AS actually. I read that people with AS tend to have higher verbal IQs, while those with HFA will have more visual/spatial skills- and do better on the performance aspect of the IQ test.

Anyways, you can't claim to have sucked on the test until you get the score back. This is because its a normed test- you won't know how you did until you know how the average person did.

7. 16th percentile... so not as good as I hoped. was on abilify at the time of the test... but still purchased some visual spatial things and will play more games on my phone for visual spatial

I did not have any big gaps and did about the same on nearly every aspect of the test... so not like you.. and in verbal it was only 66th percentile, but she said she factored social comp into my score, which is, you know wrong for someone on the asd spectrum...

I did not get assessed as an adult.
Maybe someday.


When I took one during my assessment at age 14 on block designs; I did it extremely well.

How well?
It scored me superior score ranges.
It's also one of the most enjoyable part of the assessment for me.

Conversely, the verbal aspects, however, are mostly scored delayed, average at best.


So I have at least two areas that deviates from the norm separately; either are in higher above average and lower below average range respectively.

Anything else is more or less average and even.


Now? 15 years later?
I don't know. But I do know there are plenty of changes.

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