Do schizophrenics have a higher or lower IQ then the rest of the population or is this a myth?

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What do you think?. Do you have a high or low IQ and what was your score before psychosis?

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I know a few people with bipolar and they do seem more clever then the average population?

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My IQ was 135 in college. 7 years ago, I took a Stanford and binet IQ test, because it qualifies for mensa, and my IQ was 129. I don’t know what it is now.

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Schizophrenia lowers your IQ.

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https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdf/10.1176/ajp.154.5.635

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I am schizophrenic and I am fairly clever. However, I have other problems, which mean I am not going
to be successful in life.

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I had to get s(h)itfaced for an IQ test cause i am scared of the results. So i scored 75. I am happy with it. In school i always just made it, i think the teachers cheated, so i don’t fail. I put minimum effort in.

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I dunno if an IQ test while you are drunk would show accurate results. I would think that it would lower it.

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At the time were no alcohol tests.

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As a person with Asperger’s/ASD & sz/sz-a I’m interested in adaptive functioning/ functional IQ.

There’s a fair amount of research re ASD &‘adaptive functioning’ ; with adaptive functioning often being quite low compared to a person’s IQ.

Re sz:

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When I was professionally tested in college my iq was 147. I can guarantee it’s lower than that now. Probably still above average, but I struggle a lot more.

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According to my father:

Incidentally, your intelligence tests as a child tended to come out around the 150 level.

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IQ isnt accurate. After sz my psychiatrist sent me to a neuropsychologist for an intelligence test. I scored way above average in math, concentration and spatial tests. Underaverage in problem solving and language. I had a normal or slightly above average overall score but reality is that I struggle in life because IQ tests dont test negative symptoms, creativity and emotional/social intelligence.

I now have a physiotherapy degree with A’s in half the courses. I cant even clean toilets in Mcdonald or even volunteer. I cant even control money as I have addictions and spending issues. I stay in bed all day everyday 90% of the time, 10% eating bathroom video games, and my parents control my money.

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When you like, check out “lumosity” they do iq exercises and you can train your brainfunction. They are always free exercises.

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my last IQ test i scored 87. It was when i had to go get testings done for autism.

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I am clever if I am given time to do a task.

As long as the person doesn’t care how something gets done, and gives me flexibility to do the task, I can do a good job.

However, I would not be in such an environment again if I was to get another data analysis job, as before I had family to rely on to help me.

Now I work a physical manual labour job, but it has skill, creativity and keeps me fit.

It might be a massive intellectual step down from what I was doing before, but this is damage control, and I do actually enjoy it much of the time as well.

I cannot stand the intelligence ‘dick measuring’ that happens in competitive office environments, and I am unable to navigate the games people play to try and get ahead.

Quite happy doing my landscaping now. I should have made the change years ago, as I would have prevented multiple relapses that have damaged my health

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My piano teacher says I have “poor executive functioning”. And my pdoc told me I have mild cognitive impairment due to “many years of sz”. My last IQ score administered by a pdoc was 100. And That was 28 years ago.

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I recently took a free IQ test. It gave me a range. I’m average to lower above-average IQ.

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I was born with a high intelligence but was a huge underachiever growing up and didn’t show potential or promise. I think but don’t know I was in the gifted and talented program in first grade but parents didn’t even know or remember. That or special ed…

I don’t know my iq but it’s still above average despite having lost over 10 iq points (feels like 20). So even if I had an iq of 130, it’s 120 now or if it was as high as 140, it’s 120-130 now…maybe 105-110.

Basically, in first grade I was taken from classes and doing special and gifted things things I don’t know or remember. Maybe I was pre-identified or slow or adhh or autistic or had a speech impediment. I don’t know, but GATE starts at 4th grade according to current google info.

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My executive functioning isn’t very good. Especially when it comes to organising and planning. I’m not too good when it comes to multistep tasks .