Any unintelligent aspies here?

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Is lack of intelligence the only reason for being in special ed?

Why do people assume that you can't be smart if you're only good at the things you're interested in? Like I mentioned before, I loved to read and learn from books as a kid, but most of the stuff I read and learned was about animals and plants and bugs and insects and cartoons and non-mathematical science. But when I was in junior high my grades plummeted and my mother would ask me why because she knew I liked to read and learn things. Yeah, as long as it wasn't math, social studies, and physical education.

I guess I only liked doing it when it wasn't being taught in school. Go figure.

I've never really thought of myself as intelligent, barely managed to scrape a pass on my exams at school. I'm better at hands on sort of things, if you give me a maths equation for example I'd be all day trying to make sense of it. But if you gave me a car I could strip the engine down and put it back together again.

i received my official diagnosis yesterday . So the Diagnosis that i received are social pragmatic communication disorder, Intellectual disability, and ADHD. Does the diagnosis 
of social pragmatic communication disorder mean that i am not autistic. I think i am going to get a second opinion on the social pragmatic communication disorde. The Intellectual disability said that my IQ was 68 i looked the mental age up for that score and it said 10 years old so what does that mean i have the mentally of a 10 year old which doesn't make cents.

WTF? A person with an IQ of 68 wouldn't be able to write your posts.

You should look up your Performance scores versus your Verbal scores. Frequently, people with autism spectrum disorders have scattered scores (e.g., very high Verbal scores in combination with very low Performance scores).

I once tested out at 150 Verbal, 90 performance.

Basically, what I'm saying is that your results are a prime example of what is wrong with IQ tests. I wonder if "motivation" played a role in your score. Or some sort of depression?

I thought that social pragmatic communication disorder was not Autism but it should be because it's the same cetera just without the restrictive and repetitive behavior. Look it up

I got services in school since day one, but I was always in mainstream classes. The services helped me with things like social skills and made it so I could take breaks when I got overwhelmed. I was pretty smart and did well up until middle school. After that, I struggled but always managed to pass, even if just barely. I'm in college now, and things have so far been the same way. My GPA is a 2.8 or something like that and I mostly get C's with the exception of my Psychology classes, where I tend to get B's. I do worse in math and science, however. I have to retake Algebra for the third time next semester.

When it comes to general intelligence, I don't think I'm too bright. I try, but I don't know a lot of things that others know. My IQ was tested when I was evaluated at 13, and came up as about 115, but I don't feel like that is completely accurate.

Yeah I'm not intelligent at all. I'm very slow, I'm poorly coordinated, I'm not highly motivated, my IQ is very average, and I have absolutely zero interest in anything that takes thinking like programming or anything. I'm a doer not a thinker. I wouldn't say I'm really low IQ but I'm certainly not smart.

This is from an email from Larry Blim(a parent advocate) re a post by him on the NLD list-yahoo groups back in 2003.

The kids who write in "kids crater" are probably "advanced" for their age. They have Asperger's, primarily. Sometimes, Asperger's is manifested by enhanced writing ability.

I was a very good reader and speller when I was very young--12th grade reading level in 6th grade----but my writing was probably "average," and it was sloppy.

The Marine Guy's posts are maybe better than mine sometimes LOL-----and I have a consistent IQ in the 110's.

I wasn't able to really read until I turned 12. During the time I was 13, I read dozens of books and made thousands of posts on various forums.

You had a veritable "explosion" at 13.

This can happen to autistic people when they're in the right environment.

I'm glad you had this "emergence."

You should read Piaget sometime, Ezra. He had interesting theories about cognition.

Well on the Stanford–Binet scale my IQ is 128 sooo not me though I do tend to act rather dumb at times sooo maybe?