Actually Katie it is rather accurate in the age section. I am fourteen years of age and have never taken these tests you speak of. Yet, it was never offered as they never accepted until quite recently that I have a psychotic illness synonymous with schizophrenia, most likely paranoid type, which I have read specifically has the best prognosis and is less likely to show up on neuro-cognitive tests.

To compound this pleasure of doubting my own intelligence, recently I have been more absent minded than usual, even though the medication I am currently on (Invega) is helping to sort out not only psychotic and negative symptoms but is helping to restore my cognition, despite the fact that my attention span, especially on tests is diminished as it was when I became ill. If it does indeed take months to recover from psychosis then that is certainly what has occurred in the past. I was not able to have much intellectual stimulation as I was actively recovering from paranoia.

Recently however, I fail most tests, including IQ tests, even though I never score below 100. However, if what I read several days ago is correct that ones IQ is relatively stable for the remainder of their lives, then my actual IQ is still somewhere around 140 - 150, which certainly isn't horrid.

The main reason I believe that at times I am not intellectual is because of my father's mental abuse through out the years. His IQ is well beyond genius yet he lacks sympathy of any sort. He himself, as I mentioned is Bipolar, which is what I was perceived of having. That or Schizoaffective Disorder, both of which seem unlikely due to the lack of mood issues. Albeit at times my perfectionism has gotten the better of me.

At any rate, I believe all of this will eventually sort itself out, either through failure or raving success. No one significant has ever triumphed over a psychotic illness at my age and gone on to change things however, so the probability of it occurring is rather slim.

But who knows? Perhaps it will happen.