Well, to be completely accurate, I have received a diagnosis from my therapist but social security disability considers a diagnosis from a therapist to be an opinion, rather than a bona fide diagnosis. For that, one needs a psychologist. So, I have been diagnosed by my therapist with Asperger's and dissociative identity disorder (she's not the first therapist either) but those two diagnosis's create their own problems with test taking. For instance:

As a function of the Asperger's, I am often confused when a question that almost everyone else has no problem answering is too vague for me, or it's been asked sloppily. i.e. "I seem to be about as capable and smart as most others around me." I have a measured IQ of 172. I am not 'about as capable or smart', I am 'more capable or smart'. So do I mark 'true' or 'false'? I tend to go with false. That capable or smart clearly doesn't extend to my ability to take tests or answer simple questions but if you have a quantum physics question - I am your guy!

As for how the DID impacts my test taking ability: So the teacher calls me up to talk in front of the class. ~I~ don't want to. And alter, who has no difficulties with doing so, comes forth and talks in front of the class. We sit down and the teacher says, “Very good Angel” which tips me off that the talk has been given and the ordeal over. It looks like I just gave the talk; it sounded like I just gave the talk – but ~I~ didn't just give the talk. So for the purposes of this test, did I find it very hard to talk in front of the class? Please know, I got so used to accepting the praise or blame for an alters actions and/or behaviors that it just became second nature to say, for instance and in this case, no I had no difficulty – when in fact, from my perspective, I didn't even do it.

So how do I answer the true/false question: In school I found it very hard to talk in front of the class.