I am sure some would welcome it but would it work ? The problem is how do you define high functioning,and are people necessarily skilled at accurately assessing their own level of functioning ?
Also how would it be assured that only high functioning posters posted there? How would the moderators make these decisions if such a forum was ever created?
Iāve gotten so I feel i can measure it, my own functioning, not comfortable that I can totally control it with a stressful kind of job I used to have. It starts and takes weeks for me to build into a clinically psychosis state. Talked to my pdoc about this last time, she agrees. But then I also sometimes have diplopia, ptosis (drooping eyelid) and neurological symptoms to clue me into a flare of psychosis coming on, not always tho I learned this last time.
I would wish for a higher functioning forum. Like I said yesterday, or tried to say, since I thought this was sponsored by the NIH it should be more professional and not a free for all psychotic text board. I come here to learn from others experience tho too and being ill is part of it.
This is racistā¦it would be class warfareā¦your VIP club would have what like 12 people in itā¦lol as a moderately functional member I say good luck you high functioning elitistā¦this is all a joke BTWā¦just pickingā¦
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13ā¦but we do not need an Illuminatiā¦everyone should just get alongā¦talking about assessing own skills of functioningā¦and only high functioning posters on such a forumā¦?? Are we in rural India? Class society and separation?..no thanksā¦just my 2 cents
Just putting it out there for debate as others have mentioned the needs of being high functioning .
Niceā¦like this? 
Thanks for the video plugā¦shameless promotion Iāll take itā¦
Another thread- hijacked and ruined?! 
Choppped my reply in piecesā¦if there are needs of high functioning just have freedom of speech and let such 'lower functioning" people learn, why separate yourself? all I am saying, and many people who appear to be lower functioning probably have a better IQ than both of us anyways, they just donāt tell about itā¦
I have met people that others thought were ādumbā and come to find out had a 139 - 146 IQ and were brilliantā¦once you get to know them and actually talkā¦I am also in that rangeā¦
Really if your needs are not being met here why not use reddit or 4chan or Facebookā¦
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@Quequeg why did you post up one of my vids and a wrestling vid? Iām not complaining just wondering
I think relying on a high IQ criteria would be problematic as IQ level and level of functioning arenāt necessarily totally interchangeable.
I am regarded as highly/very intelligent by the pdocs who have treated me, but would only consider myself at a moderate level functioning wise.
I think this need could probably be best served by starting a private message and inviting people who seemed to be on a similar wavelength in functioning and recovery focus. I donāt see how the forum could establish any kind of official criteria for this as far as a public forum goes.
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Anyone can feel free to PM about stuff that would probably be taken down or get you in trouble with the mods. Iām a big boy, life isnāt all rainbows and uni-corns.
I make no promises, though, I could end up blocking you.
Iāve heard that as a group schizophrenics are less intelligent than average. However, there is a sub group among schizophrenics that is substantially more intelligent than average. I remember one night someone posted an IQ test on this site. Just about everyone scored way higher than average on the test. I scored 136 myself.
There is a problem in your request as to how you determine who is āhigh functioningā. I once met a guy with an IQ of 158 who was totally dysfunctional. There was this brilliant atomic scientist who worked on the atom bomb who couldnāt figure out how to drive a car. A high IQ doesnāt necessarily mean high functioning, and a lower than average IQ doesnāt necessarily mean low functioning. Mohamed Ali had an IQ of 77. Iām a little uneasy with the idea that all the mental activity we call intelligence can be reduced to a single number.
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Those Internet iq tests arenāt exactly accurateā¦just sayin
I took a real iq test once and scored 120 which is very good. I got an sat of 1870 which translates to 128ā¦but that was prepsychosis
I also feel its too exclusive to the needs of our friends here. I function in some ways and am disfunctional in other waysā¦
I guess the people who made the test would have an interest in creating a test that was skewed towards higher scores. I made a 127 on the WAIS test, but I was on Haldol at the time, and the producers of the test probably had lower scores that were counted in a higher percentile. A score of 123 would be put in as high a percentile on the WAIS that a 130 would be put in on the internet test. That said, this IQ test seemed pretty accurate to me. They had some number progressions on that test that I could not figure out. Iāve heard that the SAT test and the ACT test are not IQ tests, but are achievement tests. What the difference is I wouldnāt know.
@crimby you are of course right about high functioning and high IQ not necessarily being connected. I have a high general IQ because of my verbal abilities but my non verbal/performance/spatial IQ is considerably lower. Like that atomic scientist I would struggle to drive a car. I have great difficulty with tasks requiring practical intelligence such as manual tasks.
Here is something from an article about NLD.
In many cases, however, adults with NLD / AS have several college degrees, yet are unable to find or keep work that matches their strengths and abilities. The reason for this is the disparity between a high verbal and a relatively lower performance IQ score of NLDers and ASers. While verbal IQ is most indicative of academic achievement, performance IQ points to the ability to achieve success at work.
Iāve heard that serial killers have high IQās. God save us from them.