Your IQ as a child vs your IQ as an adult

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IQTest.com told me my IQ is 134...right after trying to get me to pay for pointless testing, haha. It's incredible that a site can exist solely to give people relatively bogus results on a mostly pointless test and then goad them into paying for more. I never took an official IQ test but any of the goofy ones that have been passed around and even the good old Mensa test they used to offer on their website have put me between 120-150. I genuinely believe I was much more intelligent relative to others as a child than I am now.

I was never IQ tested as a child, so I don't know how relevant you'll find this, but in comparison with my brother (who is at best slightly above average) I seemed very, very slow. I could not, and still cannot without the aid of a calculator, do simple addition or subtraction at the age of eight. I could not read or write, tie my shoelaces, dress myself, use a knife and fork, tell the time etc. etc. etc. at the age of eight (although that's when I started learning to do such things).

But I started to rapidly pick up academic skills from then on. I went from being unable to place in year 3 SATs to a mix of 5's and 4's at year 6 SATS, and scoring all 7's in year nine SATs. I have five GCSEs, three A Levels and I'm in the process of completing a degree.

I don't have a diagnosis of anything. I was quite badly neglected between the ages of 6-7 and well, uhm, I suppose it didn't stop until I moved in my partner who helps me with a lot of tasks I can't do, so I think a lot of it was put down to that. Also, one of the areas I was neglected in was being sent to school so I don't think I was there enough for them to notice (Maximum of 60% attendance throughout my school career. I still can't figure out why social services left me with my mum, but oh well).

The point is, intelligence and functioning are mutable. A person who appears to not function well and be of low IQ at five may well catch up fine, particularly given appropriate assistance. Especially when they're not treated as lesser for their ostensibly 'lesser' capabilities.

IQ's are only to measure which side of your brain is working

performance and verbal ability are barley all our brains are capable of.
But they know that PIQ is left and VIQ is right
However my social problem prevented me from learning anything at all in school.

The dumbest thing is that someone decided to average them together. That defeats the purpose.
So a left hemisphere is 150 and a right is 50 then they are still above average even though they can not verbally communicate???

I wish they would add social Intelligence quotient to the test.

My IQ Level was 62 when I was a child (11 years old), and when I was 19 years old, I scored 87. (All are professionally done)

Diagnosed with PDD-NOS at 4 1/2 years old. Now Atypical PDD-NOS (Resembled as Asperger's Syndrome)

Age 10: 115
Age 14: 135
Age 20: 141
Age 30: 151
Age 37: 144
Age 41: 138

I'm 48 now and haven't taken a full test lately.
I recently took a short 25 minute one and scored around 128, but I always score low on the short timed tests.

From my numbers it would seem that something about puberty can boost some mental abilities, and also that aging can diminish them as well.
My own impression is that mine are dropping, and that the more exposure to other people or media that I experience, the more it drops.
Social type stuff seems to really bog the brain down.