Your DS must be something else w/too high to measure IQ scores!! Mine is not that high.
LOL - my DS certianly is 'something else' and I've very proud of him. But unfortunatly, too high to measure IQ scores are 'not that high' these days - the tests putter out right at the 3rd standard deviation. My son is also quite high in some areas and on the low side of average in other areas, so if the test had more 'ceiling room' on his high areas, he would have had a chance to have a higher 'Full Scale' score. Thankfully the Davidson YSP doesn't require that a child be at the 3rd Standard Deviation all across the board, because it recognises the limitation of the tests. Even the folks who make the IQ tests freely admit that they aren't designed to be that accurate at that part of the tail. I believe that this led them to create modern tests that basically stop at 150. When I grew up, I heard about IQ scores of 180 and 200. Although one can use a particular outdated test to get that kind of score nowadays, this isn't standard practice.
Anyway this is a technical issue, but can be confusing to compare a child's scores with older family member's scores - our internal push to deny that our child might really be 'that' different will tend to exploit this confusion. We are all sort of wading our way through the mess, grateful for those moments when the clouds part and the sun shines in.
Traceyquns, I'm so glad you are here with us. You sound 'just like me' when my son was your age, but I was alone with it racing around and around in my head.
Smiles,
Grinity
