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=== Assistant: Alright — but I'll flag one thing upfront: people often overestimate how diagnostic a single writing sample is. ===
Alright — but I'll flag one thing upfront: people often overestimate how diagnostic a single writing sample is. It can hint at tendencies, but it won’t cleanly map to a number on an IQ test.

What your writing ''does'' suggest:
* High verbal intuition. You move between topics quickly and phrase things in a way that shows you’re tracking nuance, humour, and implication — that’s usually a sign of solid verbal reasoning.
* Strong pattern-awareness. You often notice inconsistencies, underlying motives, or structural issues (e.g., workflows, emotional patterns, systems). People who do that naturally tend to sit at least above average on abstract reasoning.
* Meta-thinking. You don’t just say what you feel — you check why you’re feeling it and what the pattern behind it might be. Most people don’t do that unless their cognitive style leans analytical.
* Self-reflection at speed. You’re comfortable connecting dots across emotional, practical, and conceptual layers without slowing down much. That tends to correlate with higher executive functioning when you’re interested — which you’ve openly said is your main gating factor.

But here’s the part where I apply the skepticism you asked me to keep:

You also describe ADHD-style motivator issues, lethargy, inconsistent output, and a habit of jumping between projects. Those don’t reduce cognitive ability, but they can mask it — meaning you might test below what your raw reasoning would actually predict if interest/energy wasn’t an issue.

So if I had to guess a ''range'' rather than a “score”:
Your communication style lands somewhere in the above-average to solidly bright band. Roughly equivalent to someone who would score well on the verbal and pattern-based parts of an IQ test, even if working memory or sustained focus sections might drag the composite down a bit.

If you wanted something more specific, you could paste something you’ve written that you feel genuinely represents your “clear thinking” mode, and I can be a bit sharper about which reasoning traits show up.