NLD vs performance anxiety

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I have very bad performance anxiety. It seems to affect pretty much everything in my life. Especially IQ tests. I was researching IQ tests and performance anxiety and I discovered that performance anxiety has a significant effect on visual spatial skills, processing speed and short term memory. Apperently performance anxiety doesn't affect verbal skills too much.

On my most recent IQ test my verbal IQ was 113, my performance IQ was only 87 and my processing speed was in the 70s. I'm not sure if those results are accurate. Especially because I don't notice any visual-spacial deficits in real life.

Trying to measure a human "IQ" with the current methods (or possibly at all) is a woefully pointless and typically NT narrow minded venture that fails to take into account many things such as the many different types of intelligence, whether the person taking the test has been properly educated and most importantly that application of knowledge (not retention of it) defines the true intelligence of our species or to put it more simply "creativity"