Any unintelligent aspies here?

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This Christmas my father gave my mother a kind of race-horse themed poker board game made out out of wood that he built entirely by himself. My dad had built some pretty cool things with woodworking before, like my own bed when I was a teenager, but we were all really blown away by his skill and talent.

My dad only has a grade 7 education. Like many people in his day here in Cape Breton he made a living by being a fisherman after leaving school. How is it that so many people in my family have so much creative skill and talent that goes virtually unrecognized by the world? Seems the only way to be recognized around here is to play the fiddle or sing songs about coal miners.

I can tell you one thing, though. A few ten-thousand people in Nova Scotia right now didn't seem to have the intelligence to stock up on supplies or at least get a generator for the horrific storm we had on Christmas Day that destroyed the power.

I think I might well have a sub-normal performance intelligence. things seem harder for me to do than your average joe, takes me longer to pick things up. but I have a fairly high verbal intelligence so I "present well" and give the impression of having some smarts. but it seems illusory to me at least.

^^^ it has been said that at least when young, that intelligence is malleable to nurture, so I wonder if the psychiatric people who would be tasked with helping developing kids enhance their natural intelligence, that they should concentrate on raising performance intelligence, because without that, it is like a car engine that can't produce any horsepower, the car won't go or will go but feebly....

I have NLD so I am not an "aspie" , but I was in special ed throughout my whole schooling, especially for STEM subjects. Maths and science have always been extremely difficult for me to grasp. My grades were waaaaaay below average for STEM subjects and average or on occasion above average for subjects I enjoyed like social sciences and creative writing. I've always needed help organising essays though even on subjects I enjoy. I've never been gifted but I do have high emotional intelligence I believe because I love animals and I am generally a very sensitive person.

I stopped science subjects before my O level year. I think I had got 15-17% on the last biology,chemistry and physics exams I took.
My Maths was slightly better but still not that good. The biggest difficulty being with geometry (very poor at that).

I was in special ed from elementary through high school. I also had special accommodations in college. It was mainly for math related classes. I never had any special accommodations at job though (I never had one that needed it). I was only recently diagnosed as being on the spectrum, before that I was diagnosed as having ADHD. My recent diagnosis affirmed that as well as diagnosing me with other processing disorders.

idk maybe

when it came to numbers I was below average, same for the timed spatial test. verbal was the only thing I did well on, so well that now and then i'd score an aggregate in the gifted range, but more often I dinged below average. how I felt on test day was a big determinant of my performance. I think IQ tests [as conceived of by lewis terman et al] are just the dominant class' way of parsing the people underneath them for [what they consider to be] societal usefulness, and a highly flawed way at that - separating the bright cattle from the rest and lumping the ones who just didn't test well [but were really bright otherwise] in with the rest of the dullards to be marginalized, enslaved via various means, or put on cattle trucks to be slaughtered in useless war. so when you hear some stuffed shirt Social Darwinist braggart make snide remarks about the "useless eaters," IMHO that is the mark of the same kind of eugenicist booster who invented the IQ tests.

I've never been in special ed, but when I was in first grade my school said I needed an aide who worked one-on-one with me because of my behavioral problems (mostly tantrums and meltdowns). I was always of average intelligence. I had no language problems and am not a visual thinker, so I did mostly fine with schoolwork. My main problems were at gym and in graphic communication, because my motor skills are impaired. Fortunately, I was allowed to skip P.E. lessons in primary school (that was done for everyone´s safety, as I had very violent meltdowns out of frustration in that class) and the teacher of graphic communication seemed to understand my situation and she gave me passing marks even when my drawings were embarassingly messy and ugly.