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My boyfriend is threatening to dump me because of me getting medical guardianship. Is that reasonable?

Read the complete thread , starting to see a pattern So two questions for you. First is your boyfriend also on the spectrum. Second is your ring finger longer than your index finger. If both are true I think I know what is going on Has nothing to do with intellectual capacity. Rather your mothers bias toward autism.
 
the_tortoise said:
Definitely. And IQ tests don't measure nearly all abilities - nor do they measure all ways of demonstrating the abilities they try to measure.

Modern IQ tests go beyond full-scale IQ and your scores are broken down and various indexes used to identify specific disabilities.

My IQ subtest scores are so uneven (69 to 130) I do not even have an FSIQ score - nowhere in the report does it say "tortoise has an IQ of [number]" because there is too much subtest scatter.

Instead of an IQ I have an estimated General Ability Index and a Cognitive Proficiency Index (that are almost 4 standard deviations -- almost 60 points -- apart) ...and even those don't reflect the variance in my actual skills, so in my report there are many pages of specific test scores (way beyond just IQ subtest scores) and descriptions of my performance and areas of ability where I have obvious problems.
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That sounds much more helpful than my report! Which in all honesty has left me with with more questions than answers when it comes to cognitive function. She noted that within each test my performance was erratic.

A lot of the tests started easy and continued to get harder. They ended when either I'd got a certain number of them wrong in a row or i ran out of time.

I remember in one test, where I had to reorder a set of numbers and letters based on a set of rules. My success rate was only just good enough to keep the test going. Then, as it went on, i sudennly fell into a rhythm like a light had been switched on. Then she her demeanor changed and sudennly it was like the light had been switched off and the erraticism returned.

As I don't seem to have any control over the light switch, conceivably I could have been in the dark for the whole assessment resulting in a conclusion that I have a low IQ.
 
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