I'm 25 female, a CNA and I work in the hospital with nurses my age and younger. They seem so mature, articulate and knowledgeable.
I confided in my therapist of it might being a intellectual disability but she says it's just anxiety. She told me that in order to pass my CNA I'd have to hold a level of average intelligence to pass. But these nurses are on their own, I'm still at home figuring out life.
They seem so mature even how they talk to me. I feel like a kid.. but is this anxiety? I am quiet, I do have a baby face as well and I'm short so maybe this makes me look youthful?
I took an IQ test off reddit that someone recommended and I got about 100 on it. On mensa Denmark I got 102. So is this just anxiety? My mom says I seem mature but I don't feel like it. I did have an IEP in school I missed a lot and fell behind in a few classes math and reading They helped me with. But I wasn't diagnosed with anything. I'm pretty sure I have ADD. In school like I said I had issues with being absent. My mom said that they didn't suspect anything like that... (Intellectual disability). On my IEP papers it didn't rule out anything. Otherwise I was in normal classes even the classes that had a Para in it. I was in with kids who didn't have IEPs.
I'd wish to be more assertive and confident.
I wish I could start over with school and try harder but I don't know.
Is this a bunch of anxiety? Like my therapist says?
So is it just anxiety or is it low IQ? :/
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I feel I answered this at some point before, many months ago. Recurring doubt?
Either way, you should listen to your therapist. As for as IQ goes all they are saying is that any remotely normal person could do it. The rest is down to time and effot committed. Of which you have as much as most I imagine.
Of course the nurses will seem impressive! They are in their proffessional mindset doing things they have done many times.
You should approach this differently.
Pick a hobby. Something you do well. Anything. Silly or not. A game, an activity, anything. Now ask someone else, who does not do this, to do it. Compare how you both perform. Of course you, the practiced person having done it thousands of times, will make the other person seem incapable by comparison. But you learned how to do it at some point. They could too. As can you with anything else.
And as a sidenote, nurses often default to a reassuring tone. Which is similar to speaking to children. It is an occupational hazard more than a reflection of how they view you. You will do the same in time. Just like how you have one tone for your parents and another for friends, and yet another for that someone you think is a little extra cute.
people are just different.
like I grew up in a high verbal conflict household. My parents were always talking, yelling, cussing, arguing, or just plain right speaking to me non stop.
guess what that meant? There was a lot of things I became very very good at.
conflict management, understanding complex behaviour, verbal fluency, think quickly.
also as a result. I moved out of home early because I couldn’t stand my home environment. So I had to learn to be Independant quickly.
all these things aren’t to do with intellect but experience and my situation in life.
you were just in a different life situation to others and learnt different skills.