Comments on: Brain injury does not = lack of intelligence https://www.jumbledbrain.com/brain-injury-does-not-lack-of-intelligence/ Discover - Empower - Thrive Mon, 20 Jun 2022 01:54:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jenny Hughes https://www.jumbledbrain.com/brain-injury-does-not-lack-of-intelligence/#comment-1574 Mon, 13 Apr 2020 12:31:44 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=3193#comment-1574 Yes, I’m slower and can’t do maths in my head or always know WHICH sum I must do – I was very good at maths before. I get confused with money and the change in shops, sometimes people help me but other days I do it OK. I don’t believe in IQ scores: when I was a teenager i bought a book with lots of tests in it and by the end I’d learned how to do the tests and scored 144+. And IG tests don’t reflect our day-to-day lives such as form-filling, knowing how much food to cook, not buying EVERYTHING on the shopping list when I think I’ve checked again & again that I have etc. Sometimes I can talk really well but at other times I really struggle to and when people reply speaking too fast I can’t understand – nor directions because I can’t remember, need them written down now. Am I more stupid? Yes, in some ways and it makes me really sad as does how exhausting things that were easy to do before are now. And when I fail even though I’ve tried so hard & so many times it makes me feel a complete useless person and I lose even more confidence, it would be so nice if people said ‘well done Jen’ not only when I do my art (thanks to them for this encouragement) but when I succeed at the things I once took for granted I could do and most people I know don’t understand how many ‘invisible’ skills I’ve lost, it hurts when they get angry with me because I haven’t done what they’ve told me to, I wish they’d ask me to try explain why I haven’t, or better still: not NEED to explain, and I wish people would do what they promise to do = often their JOB to do, do it right and the FIRST time, not make mE have to chase them up again & again. Thank you for writing about these things.

]]> By: michelle.munt@yahoo.co.uk https://www.jumbledbrain.com/brain-injury-does-not-lack-of-intelligence/#comment-916 Thu, 18 Jan 2018 19:00:18 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=3193#comment-916 In reply to Tuula | My Tuesday Therapy.

Thanks Tuula. I think that sentence goes for everybody, no matter what your situation.

]]> By: Tuula | My Tuesday Therapy https://www.jumbledbrain.com/brain-injury-does-not-lack-of-intelligence/#comment-915 Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:48:14 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=3193#comment-915 I LOVE the “Grades don’t measure intelligence and age doesn’t define maturity”. Excellent post, Michelle.

]]> By: michelle.munt@yahoo.co.uk https://www.jumbledbrain.com/brain-injury-does-not-lack-of-intelligence/#comment-904 Sat, 23 Dec 2017 18:07:12 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=3193#comment-904 In reply to Sandy Pozniak.

They are pretty complicated and I think try to cover insight, but I’m not sure how successfully. Thank you though, I appreciate it.

]]> By: Sandy Pozniak https://www.jumbledbrain.com/brain-injury-does-not-lack-of-intelligence/#comment-903 Sat, 23 Dec 2017 16:15:15 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=3193#comment-903 Just listen to these insights. How can anyone think you’re not smart? Do they measure insight on intelligence tests?

]]> By: michelle.munt@yahoo.co.uk https://www.jumbledbrain.com/brain-injury-does-not-lack-of-intelligence/#comment-893 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:57:37 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=3193#comment-893 In reply to Teresa Fehr.

Wow, some people are so ignorant! Still, she was trying to be nice in her own way I guess…..

]]> By: Teresa Fehr https://www.jumbledbrain.com/brain-injury-does-not-lack-of-intelligence/#comment-892 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:43:20 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=3193#comment-892 You Go Girl!
I had been tested pre-injury and was above average – but I agree that IQ testing is a flawed way of calculating intelligence. I also think that many of us Survivors (especially of moderately- severe TBI) had above average IQ … That’s why we’re misdiagnosed, incorrectly diagnosed and over
medicated.
ON a funny note: once after sitting a couple hours at a lunch in a brewhouse, my husband (who had tried a few brew samples), remarked to the waitress how well I was doing now because I’m brain injured. The waitress, who had been serving and interacting with us all this time, turned and said to me – very slowly and loudly in my face – ” h a v e a n I c e d a y ” … then she stopped talking to me and started to my husband about me — as if I couldn’t hear or understand.
Honestly I actually found it funny (might not have felt that way a few years earlier).

]]> By: michelle.munt@yahoo.co.uk https://www.jumbledbrain.com/brain-injury-does-not-lack-of-intelligence/#comment-889 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 10:33:06 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=3193#comment-889 ?]]> In reply to maureen cameron.

Thanks Mo and the same to you ⛄️?

]]> By: maureen cameron https://www.jumbledbrain.com/brain-injury-does-not-lack-of-intelligence/#comment-888 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 07:17:25 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=3193#comment-888 In reply to Julie Unruh.

Well put Michelle. You are one BRAVE young LADY. I hope you and JAMES have a great CHRISTMAS mo xxx

]]> By: michelle.munt@yahoo.co.uk https://www.jumbledbrain.com/brain-injury-does-not-lack-of-intelligence/#comment-887 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 02:43:07 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=3193#comment-887 In reply to Ellen Andersen.

I feel the same way. I have sort of accepted that by role in this world has changed, but I’m also not completely comfortable with it. My old expectations of myself keep sneaking back in, telling me I’m not doing enough. But I do know that isn’t the case, and I just have to keep trying to focus on my positives.

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