WAIS-IV with no FSIQ
I took an evaluation for ADHD a few years ago because of some struggles with executive dysfunction with my Software Engineering job. They ended up primarily diagnosing me with predominantly inattentive ADHD.
However, what I didn't realize at the time was the evaluation I was taking was the WAIS-IV, which I had never heard of prior to being evaluated. This is my first time knowingly taking an Intelligence test (My mother told me I was evaluated in the 130-ish range as a child, but I have no memory of this).
My results leave me a little confused here. I'll post them below, but most of scores fall in the "just above" average range, with a Verbal Comprehension Score of 141, which strikes me as a strange outlier. I always did quite well academically through high school and college, and was in the gifted program in my senior year of high school.
I suppose I'm primarily wondering if such an uneven distribution is typical of people with an ADHD diagnosis, and why my evaluation didn't include an FSIQ result, which I am given to understand is usually part of the WAIS-IV.
Posted Aug 14, 2026, 10:17 PM UTC