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I would be interested which subtest tends to be performed better by people with autism spectrum disorders on Wechsler tests: Block Design or Matrix Reasoning?

I read about WAIS-III profiles of mathematically and scientifically talented students and they, on average, performed better in Block Design than in Matrix Reasoning, with the difference of about one or two scaled scores on average. I did WAIS-R test in 2016 and there was Block Design subtest, but no Matrix Reasoning subtest. There were three performance IQ subtests in which my scaled scores were below 10: Picture Arrangement, Object Assembly, Picture Completion. I read that results in these three subscales tend to be, on average, pretty significantly weaker than results in Block Design subscale in the case of mathematically and scientifically talented students.

It's funny living in a household with a person who's brand of autism means they struggle to get jokes

I'm forever walking round the house calling for: "Joe King!"

I suppose that I might get extremely high result in Symbol Search in Wechsler IQ tests, in the test which I did in 2016 there were no such a subtest, I scored 13 in Coding (corresponding to IQ 115 - 119) and I saw Wechsler profiles in which Symbol Search was some scaled scores better than Coding, Symbol Search may look easier for me than Coding or Block Design.

Yay! I found people like me!

phghlap.

real.

MEEPRAP

i see a title;
'Masters of the universe' arrive in Davos on private jets ...'

ah it's rebel news, haven't seen them in ages

If autistic people are supposed to be very rational and logical, unlike NTs, why do so many of us have irrational fears, phobias, intrusive thoughts, anxiety, and trouble telling reality apart from fantasy?

Other than the fact that we're living in a dystopian cesspool of a world where people think we're all freaks and losers, I mean?

I "feel" that the idea of endless damnation or annihilation od consciousness is illogical and irrational, not to mention the fact that it looks utterly immoral and unmerciful to my "mind". According to my "mentality" the evil (also the physical evil) should had never happened. I want to experience bliss and comfort without tragedy literally forever. Consciousness and sentientness are in my opinion more obvious than unconscious, nonsentient laws of physics. I do not believe in atheism. I think that it is necessary to forgive everyone everything. I hate suffering. I do not want eternal damnation of someone other and I do not want eternal damnation of me. For my "mentality" the mere idea of unforgivable sin is utterly absurdal... For my "mentality" cruelty, brutality, torturing, annihilating sentient beings are extremely nonsensical and should had never happened. I would prefer happiness and wellbeing without end for literally everyone and for literally every sentient being which exists. No exception!

netanyahou in a trump suit, that was very ridiculous
reminds me of the bommel-hype (litterature) when his checkered coat was fashionably worn by everyone


really oldfashioned, cut out of the newspaper


ha i see this (newspaper edition) is between the pijpleider(colonisation/oil)'71
and de ombrenger(free energy&tptb)'72
and placed in an absurd or magic-realistic time frame

I may wonder how often people with ASD score at least 3 scaled scores better in Block Design than in Picture Completion in older versions of Wechsler tests.

Reasons why many people formally diagnosed with Asperger's dislike being lumped in with autism:

It’s not about being "better," it’s about being seen correctly.
It is not snobbery or superiority: if you use a hammer to describe a scalpel, you lose the nuance of what the tool actually does. For me and many other Aspies, the "Asperger's" label wasn't a trophy; it was a map.
Here is why that "snobbish" accusation misses the point of how we feel about it:
Accuracy over Hierarchy: We aren't looking for a "higher" rank; we’re looking for a category that accounts for empathy and masking. The broad "Autism" label often brings up images of people who can't communicate or who lack social interest. Many of us Aspies are the opposite—some of us are too tuned into human emotion [3]. We are not "better" than other autistic people; we just have a different sensory and social profile [4, 7].
The Struggle of "Appearing Normal": Being "lumped in" ignores the specific exhaustion of masking for some of us. Many live a life that looks "normal" on the surface; a job, getting married—but that doesn't mean some of us aren't internally crumbling under the weight of it
[3, 4]. When you lose the specific label, you lose the vocabulary to explain that "hidden" struggle.
A Different Creative Language: People like us often have a "special interest" that is social or emotional (like writing or music that connects people) rather than mechanical or mathematical [2]. In a broad ASD category, that "soft" genius often gets overlooked because it doesn't look like the stereotypical "autistic savant" [11].
We aren't trying to distance ourselves from the community; we’re trying to find our specific tribe within it—the ones who are "sensitive, empathetic, and appear normal" but feel that "glass pane" [3, 10].

I read this in a blog somewhere and it explains how a lot of us Aspies feel about Asperger's being non-existent now and that we're all just autistic. So whenever I research anything about behaviours of babies, children, teenagers and adults with functioning Asperger's syndrome, it immediately comes up with stereotypes of autistic folk that may not align with how many with Asperger's live with our condition.

They should just change it to another word, if Asperger's sounds too nazi. Like Social Communication Sensitivity Disorder or something. Autism sounds too misleading for some of us.

I think aspergers was a useful term too, it narrows down the subgenre of "autistic person". Or maybe I'm just nostalgic for it. There are a number of different presentations and types and it's not all the exact same thing, it's probably infact a bunch of completely different brain types to begin with that got smushed together. Although, where aspergers ends and the rest of autism begins is quite a blurred line and not an exact science. Some people start childhood with one presentation and grow into another, eg classic autism getting less severe with age until you get eccentric but high functioning adult. (Eg temple grandin.) Some aspies are quite severe and have no mask, my best friend in highschool was diagnosed aspergers and he rarely spoke unless it was a quote. He said more via typing. I was the talkative one and more of a nerd archetype than he is.

Special interests can be anything tbh, there isn't really a dichotomy there. It's luck of the draw. Regardless of specific diagnosis. What makes an interest special is how much you like it, how narrow the focus, that sort of thing. It doesn't even require a huge amount of knowledge, intensity is what matters.

What I really want is for the BAP (broader autistic phenotype) concept to come back. Sooo many people nowadays are getting a not-uncommon personality type diagnosed by a doctor. It doesn't need medicalising at that level! That's just a geek, not someone With Autism. Aspergers may never come back, and that's sad, but there's greater need for BAP.

My own thought of the day:
Being perceived at all is cringe to begin with so I may be extra sensitive to this, but, I feel like "normal" people get taken for granted more. It's a luxury/privilege reserved for them. I do/say whatever is natural and normal for me and it's met with curiosity or "you're so unapologetically yourself/brave/free spirited etc". And it's nice to be appreciated for that I guess and not disparaged but at the same time I'm just vibing and the response is never proportional to my level of just vibing.

I'm thinking both puberty and senescence could trigger such changes.
I'm finding my ADHD symptoms suddenly vastly harder to cope with, and most of the good parts of Asperger's are only visible in the rear view mirror.

Yes, I can't relate to everything in that blog post I shared, but it still paints a good picture of why they shouldn't have taken Asperger's out of the autism spectrum.