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Old Mar 23, 2016, 10:30 AM
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I'm glad socialized healthcare paid my tests. But also when done, I wish I had someone who actually cared about ADD afterwards... but they are so out of staff all the time, just waiting to get tested took 2 years.

I've been thinking about intelligence and ADD vs ADHD, and I just think those with ADD are somewhat easier to test, that is why they might score higher in IQ. If they even do.

The term IQ is a bit iffy because it actually does measure focus and speed as well. I'm not fond of working with a lot of time pressure, and half way through a classic IQ test my brain refuses to work anymore, because of boredom. Call it distraction if you like.

I'm not sure if I'm getting dumber each year (you usually have the same IQ through life, right?) but I've actually "lost" almost 40 IQ points from my best to now. Is it even possible, or is it ADD getting "worse" because of this and that or what?

What is actually horrible to think about, is that the dumber version of myself has a MUCH easier time communicating with normal people. I really don't want to even think of what that really means...