My actual IQ scores

My mom confessed my actual IQ scores when I again expressed doubt in my intelligence.

I'm fond of doing that. Doubting my competence. It used to be sincere. Now it's only half-sincere. But I'm not asking for pity. Mostly, I feel sorry for myself. I get high on a low.

Anyway, as a child my IQ score in the mid 120's. This is actually very respectable... but it was also disappointing to my teachers who thought I was in the 140's. Actually, I think as far as mental power I am in the 140 to 160 range. I'm starting to doubt the validity of all of this. But I did very well on the performance section (broke ceilings) and not so well on verbal (which is more of a measure of crystallized intelligence). My intellectual development was delayed by hyperammonemia, which may have temporarily lowered my fluid intelligence, thereby hampering my ability to learn and develop crystallized intelligence. My mom also related stories about how teachers would ask questions that stump the entire class... and I would wait in the back until no one answered and then deliver a well thought out and insightful answer (this is not done to make myself seem smarter... only to give others a chance to respond). But now I feel very comfortable expressing myself in English. I learn words and sentence structure very easily... often I only need to hear them once to infer meaning and I usually don't mind looking words up in the dictionary. And as I've learned more it has become easier for me to learn even more. But as I've said before, my vocabulary isn't THAT big. Or maybe a lot of it's very technical. Don't know.