Testing

It is an uhealthy obsession of mine, I have poor confidence(I constantly think Im stupid), and in some cases it can greatly affect my ability to process information. I never had problems in school and most of the teachers find me very smart, but I cant help myself but to constantly doubt my intelligence.

@Kendvil I’m so sorry. That sounds really hard. It’s going to get better though :)

It isnt, but adhd testing usually includes few tests that question your concentration level, iq etc... The reason why they test your iq is because many simptoms of adhd overlap with simptoms of being too smart or too below average, so the iq test gives your doctor a good platform to work on, althought it is not neccesary for diagnosing adhd.

@Kendvil Concentration doesn’t mean you are or aren’t smart.

@Nica Yes exactly, as I said, you have few tests and one of them is concentration test( the most important one) and thats why iq tests in this case pisses me of. It has nothing to do with having adhd.

@Nica When I got assessed we did do an IQ test. She said because it shows your ability to concentrate and it’s more evidence to go off during the evaluation. My working memory (which is affected by ADHD) is really bad and brought my whole score down but I got like average intelligence or something so idk it’s okay. But she said that supported a likely ADHD diagnosis. Also that’s how I got diagnosed OCD too cause I told her my ocd symptoms during the evaluation and so she did an evaluation for that as well. So something for OP to think about if you haven’t been diagnosed with ocd yet either.

@Doing-a-okay (sorta) I’ve been tested from 4 years old all the way to 18 years old and I haven’t heard of any sort of mental illness/neuro-focused test pairing it with an IQ test. There are ones that include it but not THE test. The OFFICIAL IQ/mensa test, I mean. That you pay for out of pocket and it’s very limiting how you go about doing that test. My husband’s part of Mensa and he has ADD, so his concentration is crap. And yet he has such a high IQ he’s part of Mensa—concentration does not mean you don’t have a high IQ; that’s how I know about all that. So, they might *say* that but not the official one that’s all fancy. I’d personally like to look at that to say yes or no because lots of places like to say it’s a or *the* IQ test when it’s not and there’s difference between a FULL ON test of IQ and other tests I mentioned above.

@Nica Oh I mean you are probably right idk it probably wasn’t a full on IQ test like the one you are talking about cause those take hours right? My assessment was like two hours long. I think it was just a shortened version of it, we did the puzzles with shapes and lines and numbers that have to do with picking the right thing, she had cubes with triangles you had to rearrange to make the shape, there was vocabulary, brief knowledge test like on places and history, vocabulary, and then the thing I was awful at the math one. She read numbers out loud and I had to recite them and then the other one was math problems I had to do mentally with no paper. I pulled out my report I guess it was the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Fourth edition (WAIS-IV) she’d called it an IQ test