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I don't think this is really anything new. In fact, my IQ was used to help prove I'm ADHD (basically, with my high IQ, I shouldn't have had such a low GPA).
by j_baker 17y ago
I don't think this is really anything new. In fact, my IQ was used to help prove I'm ADHD (basically, with my high IQ, I shouldn't have had such a low GPA).
- rjurney 17y agoMy 'IQ' hid my ADHD, because until highschool I got by without studying or paying attention or doing homework. I'd ace the tests, and it was enough to pass. In highschool, I needed to study or at least pay attention and didn't. Teachers said I was smart, but lazy. I think its a pretty common situation. Nevermind that some people are independent learners, and the public education system is ill suited to this style of learning.
- jibiki 17y ago> I think its a pretty common situation. Yes. That sort of story is quite common even among people who don't have ADHD. If you are in 8th grade, and you are capable of learning all the material without doing any homework, then it is just not rational to do homework.
- tokenadult 17y agoI don't think this is really anything new. What may be new here is the changing view of what happens to the high-IQ, ADHD child upon growing up. I think there was a time when the high IQ score would have been taken as a prediction of all the usual socioeconomic success correlated with high IQ, but now the more nuanced view is that adult workers need other forms of cognition (broadly characterized as "executive functioning") to thrive in the workplace.