Rant/long wall of text about IQ, autism, and why my IQ has dropped.

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[–]Saiditaccount1 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I doubt you are stupid. I'm autistic too and in your situation, and I feel artificially stupified.

You can perform introspection, so you are probably the smart kind of autistic like me. Either really stupid or really smart.

Don't give up YET. There is so much we don't know.

Are you stupid? Did the meds make you incurably stupid or just temporarily? Are you stupid because you haven't been taking care of yourself? Are you stupid because you haven't used your brain for a while? Have you spent too much time on internet forums? That will do it. We don't know. Get the facts before you lose hope.

And if you lose hope, contact me. There may be several final things we can try, but I'd rather not before it is clear you are hopelessly fucked.

[–]gloomy_bear[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah there could be a lot of things that could be doing it. I'm in the process of finding a job rn as well.

[–]gloomy_bear[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Also, I probably need to get referred to occupational therapy. I haven't lost hope at all yet BTW. I just probably need to figure out what caused my IQ to go from 96-104 (and this is calculated) to either 84-92 or 88-96.