ADHD High IQ (High IQ confirmed recently).

Hello!
I recently got my IQ tested. I scored a full scale IQ of 121 on the WAIS-IV. My sub-scores were:
130 Verbal Comprehension
115 Perceptual reasoning
95 Working Memory (yikes...)
124 Processing speed
I wonder if the high processing speed is consistent with ADHD. I know that my more-or-less average WM is. But I have read that people with ADHD also struggle with processing speed.
What are your two cents on this?
(The person who administered this is not allowed to interpret the scores. I just want to hear different opinions).
Processing speed is how quickly one can, well, process information, how many bits of information can be processed by your brain per X interval of time. That by itself does not seem contrary to the idea of ADHD, but it makes me wonder since so many people who are brilliant do not do as well on PS.

Processing speed on most measures has two factors involved how FAST and how ACCURATELY can a person process information. ADHDers tend to be great with the speed portion, but falter with accuracy because of careless mistakes. That's why PS tends to be lower with ADHD, but really although there is a cognitive profile of ADHD published by the test maker, people don't always fit in that mold.

I noticed that the symbol search score was "very superior" (a 17 out of 19 on the scaled scores scale), and the coding was a 12, which is high average. To me the difference was in the involvement of psychomotor skills on the coding, whereas on the symbol search it was pure processing speed. I suck at psychomotor tasks. I lack coordination on a lot of occasions.
Also, the matrix reasoning scores were "superior" (a 14), and it was the block design (again, psychomotor), and the visual puzzles that were "high average." The verbal comprehension overall was a 130 (very superior).
So what differences exist between what symbol search and coding assess?

One measures graphomotor (writing) speed and associative learning, the other looks at visual scanning and visual discrimination.

Yes, so this is consistent with what I said regarding my psychomotor abilities.

Here is a good article to read:

Miss Hood The ADHD brain | Huffington Post

Thanks for everyone's input!
It all makes a lot of sense.

Greetings. I had a WAIS-IV done a few months ago, though I'm not technically an adult.
Here's my score for it:
106 Verbal Comprehension
102 Perceptual reasoning
106 Working Memory
119 Processing Speed

My working memory score should be better, but it discovered I have a learning disability in this. My scores are all over the place for working memory. It ranged from 0.8% to 91% (just working memory, not any other type of memory).

I don't have AD/HD (apparently), but I know working memory problems is a type of executive function, which people with AD/HD usually lack, which is why professionals are starting to see it as a LD, instead of something on its own. This is a good thing for people in Ontario, Canada, since it's hard to get accommodations when you just have AD/HD since to them medication is a "cure". Unless they have a co-morbid LD or severe behaviour problems, they won't be able to get accommodations. I'm sorry, I just realized I went off topic.

Processing speed may be associated with AD/HD, but I know that carelessness when doing stuff would lower the processing speed score (which the psychologist made notes on about my carelessness).

That processing speed score was very high, considering your supposed carelessness. Do you remember what the sub-test scores were (matrix reasoning, digit span, information, etc.)?

Hello. The matrix reasoning is part of perceptual reasoning (visual IQ) for me. My matrix reasoning says I scored in the 75 percentile. My digit span is in working memory, and is very much all over the place. The overall is the 25th percentile. Digit span forward was in the 16th percentile while backwards was the 9th percentile I believe (took pictures of my scores, but currently can't find where the report is). Digit span sequencing was in the 84th percentile. The arithmetic part of working memory was in the 91st percentile.

Processing speed on my report says it's part of coding and symbol search. For coding, I scored in the 98th percentile, which is mainly why I have a high processing speed. The symbol search was in the 63rd percentile. When I did this assessment, there were several test I did. The other one used for processing speed is called NEPSY-II (tried to remember how to spell that when I just looked at it and no... lol). No idea what it stands for, and didn't bother to look it up. It showed that I have problems in fine motor control. But for it, the Process Local Score is accuracy and I actually scored in the 99.3 percentile. So that was really high. The section she talked about my carelessness was in self-monitoring, which is part of executive functions, though the section that is about self-monitoring seems to say I am in the 50th percentile, but she talks about it in the notes section.

**Overall for digit span was 25, not working memory**