I had wanted to make a thread about this for a while. Not sure if this is the right section of the forum, if not then sorry.
Anyways, I've been doing some reading about the current estimates of intellectual capacity in autistics. I know that by definition that Asperger's cannot involve delays in intellect...as for autistic disorders though - one minute I see 3 out of 4, next I see 50%, then I ready a study that states that the intellect of autistics is being measured inaccurately. Do you feel that many autistics are being wrongly diagnosed and treated as intellectually delayed? Or are they right after all?
Myself, I was given the exact same type of Raven's test in one of the studies I mentioned back in my younger years. I was given a "gifted" label thereafter, yet at a certain point in my education (around the 6th-7th grade or so) I began to struggle with making sense of all the classwork and had even withdrawn from an accelerated program I was placed in. Maybe it was because I didn't try hard enough, or because I really did have learning difficulties that no one bothered to address or pick up on. No one picked up on my autism, I was just expected to keep at the pace of the rest of my peers...but I couldn't.
Anyways, I've been doing some reading about the current estimates of intellectual capacity in autistics. I know that by definition that Asperger's cannot involve delays in intellect...as for autistic disorders though - one minute I see 3 out of 4, next I see 50%, then I ready a study that states that the intellect of autistics is being measured inaccurately. Do you feel that many autistics are being wrongly diagnosed and treated as intellectually delayed? Or are they right after all?
Myself, I was given the exact same type of Raven's test in one of the studies I mentioned back in my younger years. I was given a "gifted" label thereafter, yet at a certain point in my education (around the 6th-7th grade or so) I began to struggle with making sense of all the classwork and had even withdrawn from an accelerated program I was placed in. Maybe it was because I didn't try hard enough, or because I really did have learning difficulties that no one bothered to address or pick up on. No one picked up on my autism, I was just expected to keep at the pace of the rest of my peers...but I couldn't.
