autism
as a kid I had my IQ tested. On the one hand my verbal skills were rated pretty low, but on the other hand, with the regular connecting the dots/computational/analyzation and whatnot, I was rated very high. overall my IQ is around 135, but because of my very low verbal score they excluded me from their 'gifted' programs or whatever at school.
At the time I didn't really care, although I was a little upset at how bad I did on the verbal half of the test. Most of which was them testing how good my vocab was. As I had yet to get access to the internet at that time It wasn't as great as it could have been. Usually I'm really good at figuring words out based solely on context, but the words the examiner came up with were insane, and she sucked at giving context clues, which I believe she was supposed to give me.
But it made me start thinking about autism today. And I wondered if it was similar in some way to my own antisocial problems, which was the biggest reason overall for my failure on that half of the test. Similar, maybe, but in the case of autism its a much deeper rooted thing and it tends to start at infancy. But many autistic children are extremely intelligent. And they can see the world in a totally different way from the rest of us. In some cases, memory is photographic, and computational skill is through the roof. And not because they can think their way more quickly through complex problems, but because they bypass the problem completely and just read it the same way you read english, which is something I've only been able to do one or two times in my lifetime, and even then it was accidental. It just feels like the part of my brain that can do that is largely off limits to me. Or that it's an involuntary process, and I can't force it.
But I probably don't know enough about autism to say any of this. I should do more research first. All I know about it is from a few shows I watched and being called autistic jokingly when I was younger.
At the time I didn't really care, although I was a little upset at how bad I did on the verbal half of the test. Most of which was them testing how good my vocab was. As I had yet to get access to the internet at that time It wasn't as great as it could have been. Usually I'm really good at figuring words out based solely on context, but the words the examiner came up with were insane, and she sucked at giving context clues, which I believe she was supposed to give me.
But it made me start thinking about autism today. And I wondered if it was similar in some way to my own antisocial problems, which was the biggest reason overall for my failure on that half of the test. Similar, maybe, but in the case of autism its a much deeper rooted thing and it tends to start at infancy. But many autistic children are extremely intelligent. And they can see the world in a totally different way from the rest of us. In some cases, memory is photographic, and computational skill is through the roof. And not because they can think their way more quickly through complex problems, but because they bypass the problem completely and just read it the same way you read english, which is something I've only been able to do one or two times in my lifetime, and even then it was accidental. It just feels like the part of my brain that can do that is largely off limits to me. Or that it's an involuntary process, and I can't force it.
But I probably don't know enough about autism to say any of this. I should do more research first. All I know about it is from a few shows I watched and being called autistic jokingly when I was younger.