I was diagnosed with this a long time ago, but by the time I reached high school, I was able to do well in school courses in regular class settings (even though I was in IEP). I even took advanced functions, calculus and vectors, and my college education is within the technology field i.e computer programming, game programming, and cybersecurity.

Because of those experiences, I thought I've grown out of it and became one of the smart ones, but the difficulty and the years it took me to develop in informal domains like my social skills (which still feels like a struggle for me sometimes) got me questioning if I understood mild intellectual disability wrong. I initially thought I was undiagnosed with autism, but after months of reviewing and understanding my mild intellectual disability, I think I can put the autism bit to rest.

When I was looking at the diagnosis report they did on me back when I as 5, it states both my cognitive functioning and adaptive functioning (the function that helps in understanding social skills and cues) are impaired. Hell, even my IQ score was said to be on the extreme low end. It states I showed strength in symbolic play and speech production, and from my understanding, it sounds like my brain has strengths in areas that are mostly creative and imaginative (though they're only strengths in comparison to my other functions, they're still very low overall).

So the question is this. Understanding the kind of brain I have and the field I have been in for a long time which doesn't involve much creativity (as it is more about efficiency in how fast an app can load). I find that I can engage in logical work and even understand logical concepts given the time, but I always notice my brain, when it's fully engage for long periods of time, will go off on a tangent and I end up thinking of drastically different things than what the objective currently is. I would sometimes say random things of the thoughts that do come to my mind in that moment, and my behaviour seems eratic to the outsider looking in. Sometimes, I don't even know what led up to me saying those things.

But one theory I have is because my brain is built different with strengths in the creative, then when I try to engage in logical work, my brain can go into overdrive and think of things that have nothing to do with my current objective.

I thought this could also be due to overthinking, but I still get them without overthinking. I wonder if anyone else with an intellectual disability experiences this as well. Cuz I can't tell if that's an affect of my diagnosis or if there's something else at play.