Sounds like the WAIS-III intelligence test. The state tested me using this as an admission criteria for a summer camp full of gifted children. They accepted two

Sounds like the WAIS-III intelligence test. The state tested me using this as an admission criteria for a summer camp full of gifted children. They accepted two kids from our school which was generally pretty rare, especially considering our school’s socioeconomic level. If I recall correctly you’re talking about the working memory index. I scored 50th percentile on that portion of the test but top 0.4% overall, which I’ve always felt like reveals something about my “ADHD brain”. It’s definitely not the norm. The administering psychologist seemed super interested in my testing and I asked a lot of questions about the process. She brought me back in for a second day of tests as some of the tests I exceeded the space available. I recall they had a band writing symbol recognition and copying test, and I filled up a page front and back, so she had to come back the next day with more pages to accurately measure me since you aren’t supposed to “ace” a part of an intelligence test. I often think about it because I often think “well, being 1 in 250 is pretty good, but that also means there’s literally millions of people smarter than me”. Hard work and building good habits like going to bed on time has been key to actually making use of the “raw power” of my brain, and Adderall as an adult has helped a ton with this despite side effects that I try to keep under control (irritability and seeming more ‘robotic’. Every time I try to stop using it I feel like my career slips and I become depressed. The me on Adderall is capable of being a competent software engineering team lead juggling multiple balls in the air. The me without Adderall struggles as a senior software engineer writing code for one project. I’m excited to take a 2 week break from the meds on vacation later this year though. I constantly feel like I’m “grinding my gears” too hard, so to speak, like the Adderall is adding jet fuel to my engine of a brain and it’s gonna burn me out. It hasn’t happened yet but I really want to avoid tolerance.