I’m diagnosed with a mild intellectual disability., I have an IQ of 69 and my community nurse who gives me my monthly injection is adamant I’m intellectually disabled, I believe I’m not… So it is really hard to get my head around this intellectual disability. I feel like a fraud.
I love reading but I find it hard to concentrate… I’m going to make it a habit to read more, I like reading about philosophy, particularly metaphysical aspects on religions concepts and interpretations and exploration, anyway I love watching older Futurama episodes as this was the inspiration into these thoughts.
I just purchased The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran from Amazon. on philosophic poetry. I love travelling and meeting other travellers and having interesting conversations. I’m told I’m a good conversationalist.
Does this sound like a person with an intellectual disability?
You said it’s mild. I don’t know whether you have an intellectual disability or not. Just because you have an IQ of 69 (if that’s accurate) doesn’t mean you’re an idiot and having an IQ of 69 doesn’t mean you can’t learn things. It sounds like you got curiosity about things in life and that you’ve learned to rise above any intellectual deficit you might have.
This just makes me insecure about myself that I’m under their team. I have nothing against people with intellectual disabilities as I spend a lot of time with people with the condition. I just hate to think people will see the intellectual disability in me and see me as vulnerable and take advantage which happens a lot with people with intellectual disabilities, mainly people without support from services but it happens.
But you have posted about people in your home taking advantage of you and you letting them do it long beyond when you should have told them to stop. You have already disclosed this is an issue for you.
I think people have taken advantage of me in the past due to my generosity and pleasing nature, I know people with intellectual disabilities can like to please people and say yes to anything due to peer pressure and naïveness, but I think me doing it is down to social anxiety and awkwardness around people.
Is thinking about misogyny and misandry and how misandry is more openly excepted and tolerated more so than misogyny which can cancel a person. Is reading and thinking about stuff like this subject the only domain of intellectuals or can people with low IQs ponder about this too? I knew about misogyny from reading but was curious about its opposite so I googled it. With this kind of curiosity does this translate to an intellectual disability?
The IQ test the psychologist did who’s specifically is intellectual disability was called the WEIS III or something like that? A standardised IQ test, incidentally this test is given to death row inmates in America, anyway he didn’t just do the IQ test, I had to be stable in my mental health and he looked at all my school records and forensic documents, unfortunately he was unable to ascertain any early development information from care givers because I grew up in social services care and moved around a lot so he had to go on written information alone and obviously how I did on the test.
I know in school I was slow, it’s documented in my school reports that I was well below my peers academically., I didn’t learn to read until I was 15, I also attended a special school for people with learning difficulties when I was 11 because I was so far behind, that’s why when I first become psychotic on telling the psychiatrist who asked the schools I attended and her finding out I went to a special school she forwarded me on to the intellectual disability team and they then did the IQ test which found me to have an IQ of 69.
I’ve also read Flowers for Algernon about an intellectually disabled man with an IQ around 69 and with his difficulties was less able then me and my abilities with a diagnosed of IQ 69, the book mentions is abilities and intelligence level has his IQ increased, it’s a good book but his base level IQ and abilities were quite low.
I don’t think so? Your sentences are fluent, coherent, and interesting. People with an IQ deficit usually have difficulty formulating their thoughts – and most often are far from being interested in complex topics.
Doubtful.
I’m not qualified to diagnose your level of disability or tell you your IQ.
I just wanted to chime in with something here based on some things you have said here in this thread :
Wishing something to be untrue based on how it makes you feel or if it inconveniences you doesn’t make it any less true.
Don’t know if you are or not, but some of the reasons you gave for not wanting to believe it strike me as more denial than any kind of logical conclusion you are trying to reach.
don’t reckon I believe in them as such .
from them of feel powerful or so.