tedanaxe:

nostalgebraist:

A suspiciously large proportion of the people I get along with really well turn out to have the same unusual IQ test performance I do – Verbal subscore on the Wechsler much higher than Performance subscore.  More than you’d think would happen by chance.  I’ve always been curious about what this means.

If this leads to any diagnosis, it’s typically a nonverbal learning disability (NLD).  I wonder if, beyond things like “tying shoes is unusually difficult” and so forth, there are deeper personality or thinking style traits associated with “being on the NLD spectrum” so to speak?  That would explain why people I get along with keep turning out to have this property.  I’m not sure what the traits would be, though.

Verbal higher than performance is unusual? The therapist who diagnosed my autism told me that that (gap between verbal/performance) is one of the indicators for asd. In my case it means i have difficulty with combining certain types of information (mostly more mathy stuff) and doing puzzles and stuff.

I’ll have to look up the exact statistics, but a large gap between subscores is unusual by definition, since the conceptual basis of IQ is that all of the subtests are correlated.

Like, in my case, there’s a big enough gap that the two can’t be reliably combined into a single score, and I’ve had good friends with the same issue.  I don’t think this is very common, because the whole enterprise of IQ testing depends on it not being common?

(IIRC performance >> verbal is more common in autism than the reverse?  But I may be mis-remembering.  Anyway, NLD and autism are co-morbid, so clearly there must be a fair number of autistic people with verbal >> performance)

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