Aspies For Freedom

Slower... hence my new signature.

yep me too.
known with my 2 friends as leaps of logic...
going from one thing to somthing aparently unrelated in half a second i can uasualy work out how but not always

Sorry Illusion, I can't answer that. Academically I think much faster than the NTs I've came into contact with - socially? No. Can you please define what it is that you mean by the poll question?

Ah. Gotcha.

Yup, I have a washing machine for a head

So I was thinking, what, BUNNY!

lol gemini's are cool dont beat yourself up over this one

im not too sure why i worry about responding on here anyway most people totally ignore what i say anyhow

hehe, Bella, love the sig thats brilliant XD

Thanks QD.  I do like to think about things too.  My mind tends to be active a lot, sometimes thinking about life things and watching other people or just looking around generally, sometimes thinking about what to say in a conversation and then at other times making up stories to entertain myself with.  

As far as conversations around ideas with other people, I tend to like to have pre-thought about an idea, otherwise I get ahead of myself and end up saying things I don't believe.  My ability to think about things on the spot is not so good.

To further answer the question, in the IQ tests that I have done, which aren't the recognised ones - my IQ has always been just above average. I was always hopeless with a lot of the maths puzzle and pattern things and I also work too slowly to finish the test.

*grins*  Thanks Pika.

Great sig, Bella!

If I had one like that, it would re-boot once or twice ("Erm, what was the question again?"), and would stall at random points, never getting to "thunk" half the time or more.

I took the WAIS 3 in 2003, and got a 121 IQ. Verbal Comprehension was highest subtest at 131, Processing Speed was the lowest subtest at 88 (re-assessed earlier this year at 67 ).

Yes .

As far as output goes, slow is an understatement. I'm at the 1 to 2 percentile mark, and you can't get much slower than that.

Internally, though, I'm in high gear because interpretation problems ("What does this mean? It could be interpreted two or three different ways. If it means this, then..." and so on), dyslexia, distractability, and Executive Dysfunction force me to process more info than necessary.

I read somewhere that the brains of dyslexics operate as much as 5x faster than the "normal" brain in trying to compensate for the problem, as measured by an fMRI (a type of real-time brain scan). It is also my personal theory that my Verbal score of 131 is high to compensate for the slow processing speed, similarly to how someone's sense of hearing can improve as a means of (partially) compensating for lost eyesight.

Ultimately, I voted "slower" because that's how it comes out, but "faster" accurately answers the question just as well.

That's a good idea... Perhaps when this when wears out it's welcome, some changes can be implemented.  

I get that 'what do they mean?' thing too. I fake understanding a lot until my brain catches up. Sometimes it doesn't work though and I'm left feeling like a fool for not understanding something that the person expects was really clear.

I tend to think processing speed doesn't have as much to do with intelligence as people might think.  For instance, someone might have really fast processing speed but use it for small talk and another might have slow processing speed but use it to think about more insightful things and interesting topics. Which isn't to say it couldn't be the other way around as well.

First of all, you prolly mean 50th percentile, which is average (a Proc Speed IQ score of 100 is at the 50th percentile rank).

Second, to whom or what is your comment directed?

Third, both possibilities you cite could happen, at least theoretically. The first one happens all the time, as the average person's subtest scores fall pretty close to one another (in a tight "shot group").

As for the second possibility, I certainly hope so.

Yeah, maybe. Find a way to get an fMRI, then you'll know. I really couldn't say.

Speaking for myself, I find it difficult to delineate between dyslexic and ADHD difficulties. Seems to me that they either overlap, interfere with one another, or both. In other words, did I mis-read something because the dyslexia transposed letters, or did I misread it because I was momentarily distracted and filled in the "missing" letters with the wrong ones? I've caught both going on. So, as it applies to me, the answer to, "Is this the mark of a dyslexic brain or an ADHD brain, or is it the same net result for either condition?" is YES. Your mileage may vary.

Then there's the Executive Dysfunction, which often has me chasing down the wrong paths on top of everything else, and further slowing things down. I don't have to tell you about ED though, eh Batman?

It depends for me in the situation. Usually i'm slow, i get extra times in exams because of it. I like to spend time when I think. Also when I do things like getting dressed or packing my bag with books for lessons I am incredibly slow.
Some times my thoughts are a lot faster than nts though. For example if someone is telling a joke my brain skips ahead so i'm always the first to laugh. My brain is odd.

I used to misunderstand how the percentile thing worked, too. I finally had to make it visual to grasp the concept.

Sooo, fwiw.....



Note that 100 IQ points = the 50th percentile.