u/Midnight5691

The local university just called me back because I had made an inquiry for details on getting a complete cognitive profile. I've already been assessed by a psychiatrist for ADHD, so I don't need it for that.​ ​ I'll admit though I would like to know exactly how spiky my profile is in reality by being tested professionally and if it lines up with what I've been seeing here.

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I don't need it for work accommodations either because I currently have a job that couldn't be designed better for my ADHD if I designed it myself, lol.

My job is basically hours of not doing anything and playing on my phone if I feel like it. Or maybe watching Netflix or, if I'm feeling ambitious, grabbing the resistance bands I have in my locker and doing a short workout, or whatever else I feel like doing.

Yeah, I do some work occasionally, just not much. Seniority has its privileges. 😁

I'm not in school because I'm 60 and I've been on this job for 31 years. I would have had a lot more pragmatic reasons for getting this done when I was in college. So I don't really need the testing for practical survival reasons, but it still intrigues me.

It could still have some benefit for executive functioning issues. But honestly, I want it partly for clarity, and partly because I find psychometrics genuinely fascinating.

I've pretty well exhausted everything I can do online at this point, there's no substitute for a proctored assessment.

So them analyzing me while I'm analyzing them almost sounds like a really cool vacation to me. 😃

The price is $1,500, which is honestly kind of bargain basement for my neck of the woods. The psychology student who called me even warned me they might give me *more* tests than a typical cognitive profile would include for the same price because the students are learning under supervision.

Like that was somehow going to dissuade me. I was basically like: "Cool." 😄

So now it's more of a cost-benefit analysis question for me. It's not like I spend money on expensive hobbies, collections, boats, golf, motorcycles, or any of the other things people dump money into.

Decisions, decisions. What would you guys do?

I just went to the variety store. I was in a rush; they were closing in 10 minutes and it was just around the corner, so I called and said I’d be there in 7. I was, lol. “See you in seven.” 😂

I needed cigarettes and wanted to pick up a six-pack before they closed; mostly the cigarettes. While there, I noticed they sold subs. I thought they were prepackaged with everything on them, but then he told me I had to pick up my items separately. I almost forgot the cigarettes, but thankfully I remembered.

I said goodbye and went outside. They closed up the store, walked by me, and I waved at them. Then I unlocked my bike and went home.

Once I got home and unpacked everything... guess what? No sub. :-(

How can I analyze complex ideas for hours and still forget where my damn sub is? How can I be so smart and so stupid at the same time?

Of course I got emotionally deregulated about it and started freaking out. I had to hop back on my bike and go back hoping for the best, and thankfully found it lying on the sidewalk near where I parked.

Sometimes I hate me. 😟

I just went to the variety store. I was in a rush; they were closing in 10 minutes and it was just around the corner, so I called and said I’d be there in 7. I was, lol. “See you in seven.” 😂

I needed cigarettes and wanted to pick up a six-pack before they closed; mostly the cigarettes. While there, I noticed they sold subs. I thought they were prepackaged with everything on them, but then he told me I had to pick up my items separately. I almost forgot the cigarettes, but thankfully I remembered.

I said goodbye and went outside. They closed up the store, walked by me, and I waved at them. Then I unlocked my bike and went home.

Once I got home and unpacked everything... guess what? No sub. :-(

How can I be so stupid? I can argue with people for hours and analyze complex ideas, yet I can’t remember where my damn sub is. How can I be so smart and so stupid at the same time?

Of course I got emotionally deregulated about it and started freaking out. I had to hop back on my bike and go back hoping for the best ​and thankfully found it lying on the sidewalk near where I parked.

Sometimes I hate me. 😟​

I was curious, so I decided to ask Google AI what it would think of my cognitive profile if it analyzed my previous posts on Reddit.

My results were kind of scary, lol.

To be honest, it's not that far off... if a little exaggerated, lol. Go ahead, Google Midnight5691 and ask it for a blunt analytical profile. To be fair, do it for yourself later, lol.

I would trade a few of my VCI points and conceptual thinking skills for some real-life mental imagery at the moment.

I'm trying to reassemble my coffee table for my back deck after it broke, and I realized it was designed improperly, so I'm fixing it. Being able to rotate it in my head would come in handy at the moment. Unfortunately, being aphantasic, I can't do that.

It was interesting having a real-life example, but it still didn't negate the irritation.🤬

I'm coming to the conclusion I've been on here too much LOL.

If you could tweak your cognitive profile RPG-style by borrowing a few stats from other people, would you? Or even if you could just redistribute your own stats, would you stay balanced? Or would you redline one of your stats at the expense of some of the others?

I’m honestly not even sure what I’d do long term, but I know I’d gladly borrow about 10 points of working memory from somebody for a couple days just to see what it feels like. 😄 It would be refreshing to just remember where I left my keys once in a while.

This probably isn’t much of a question for those of you who are already strong across the board, but for people with really spiky profiles, or those not already maxed out, I’m curious what you’d trade around, why, and whether you would at all. 😁

Well I finally did it. I'll admit taking this test was scaring me, so I put it off for a while. 😆 I was a little nervous it wouldn't correlate with my VCI score that I got on the CORE.

For context, I originally started coming to this subreddit about a year ago looking for answers. It was my first time on Reddit.

I've come to the conclusion since then that I'm not your typical person that hangs out here. This subreddit seems to me to run younger than I am, or more academic, or both, lol.

I'm a 60-year-old assembly line factory worker who's been working in a factory for over 30 years. My reading tastes don't run to the classics, but more towards King, Grisham, Tolkien and the like, and I tend to read them while working on the line.

I'm not from a STEM background, I'm recently diagnosed with ADHD, and I'm also aphantasic. Apparently, based on some tests I've taken here, my profile is also very spiky.

Sorry if this was a little long. I would just like an analysis of this and people's thoughts. Also, has the VISA been renormed lately? Oh, this test was taken unmedicated because I'm still in the titration process. Not sure if that would have mattered either way.

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