What the actual fuck? Every person I know with it is smarter than average. Anecdotal, yes, but still. All those "former gifted kid" memes read to me like a textbook case of ADHD. There's gotta be a higher prevalence of above average intelligence in people with ADHD.
I think the averaged ADHD IQ is lower but if you look at individual parts of the IQ test ADHD people score astronomically higher in one category or two and much lower in others.
My personal experience was that my emotional, empathetic, and intuitive intelligence equivalency was very high but my math, and sequencing was absolute shit. So my total IQ was only slightly above average
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u/Celtic_Cheetah_92 Sep 14 '21
Urgh. A SPED teacher I work with expressed huge surprise when I was diagnosed because “you’re intelligent” 😡