Do ppl think you're intelligent?

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Is it possible to be intelligent yet have a lower Iq score? I have been told that I'm intelligent, yet when I take Iq tests, they say I'm average. I can't perform well in iq tests due to my anxiety. Also, I'm able to answer questions in class and but when exam time comes, my marks fluctuate. In one paper I might do very well and then do badly in another paper. When asked what my average marks are, I can't tell you due to my fluctuating marks.

My friend who graduated at the top of the class at the university and now is in the doctorship in the U.S. said to me that I was not very intelligent but that I was hard working so I still had a good chance! I considered that a compliment. I was not in a good moment of my life. I think that the hard working is due to the narrow "obsessive" interests an aspie thing. I managed to be the best student in some classes at the university later but I took more time than everybody else. . Depression and bad family relations also disturb your studying. I afraid of taking these I.Q. tests and scoring very low. I sure that is going to happen because I get so nervous!

I can't read anybody's thoughts, but I hope they do

I'm told I am both. It depends on the situation.

Generally, in intellectual situations, I'm told I'm pretty intelligent.

Socially, it's another story. It's in those situations I most often hear people say, "Idiot!" under their breath.

Now I know why. AS explains every situation. Nothing else ever has.

All the time. I often got in trouble because people thought I should know better because I was so inteligent. My best friend thinks I am a genius. I have serious learning disabilties in math, I could never write by hand without pain up to my elbows and had cripping panic attacks at the drop of a hat; those that probably hid more of my intelgence and I was always younger mentaly than I was physicaly. I think some people think I am more inteligent than I really am.

Up to a few years ago, most people that I knew thought I was really smart.

Since I've been in employment, a lot of people seem to believe that I'm a complete idiot and need everything spelling out, to the point of condescension.

I don't think I'm super-smart, but I'm not a total moron either...I haven't got a lot of knowledge about anything "important", but I'm not hopeless.

People my age always called me slow in school. Most adults would say I'm intelligent.

Yes. Everyone in my family tells me how intelligent they think I am. My teachers at school all thought I was very intelligent too. Unfortunately, that ultimately caused me to "fall through the cracks"; the teachers wouldn't help me despite the clear warning signs that I was mentally ill, because they wrote it off as eccentric behavior caused by being "gifted".

Yes, and they are right. Can't translate my brand of intelligence into anything of worth, mind. I'd rather be stupid and useful and loved.

It seems to be either one way or the other. Sometimes people seem all impressed, and other times I think they they think I'm somewhat brain damaged or something.

If something "impressive" comes up they don't hesitate to switch over the view of me being intelligent, so I guess I don't come off as too obviously impaired. OTOH, if nothing comes up then sometimes strange reactions ensue. And if I'm tired that can get a lot worse (like if my conversational speech-generator is out-of-whack and what comes out of my mouth makes no sense.. oops).

I've never had people baby-talk or slow-speak to me, so thank g-d for that.

I guess in a way that makes sense -- in terms of scattered intelligence.

Yes. I get like 15-25 points higher on IQ tests than average which isn't really that much higher, but people comment to me all the time I must be a genius, even my mental health professionals. But other people think of obvious things I do not think of all the time, so I don't know where they are getting that from.

People think that I'm intelligent, because of all the different facts, that I've remembered about the many special interests that I've had, over the course of my life.

As other users have mentioned in this thread; yes and no. It doesn't really need further explaination. My teachers believe I'm slightly ret*d (I get the lowest grades possible ) but that is, merely because I don't find it any exciting nor do I find it fun at all. However — when it comes to something I do enjoy, people tend to tell me the opposite.

Edit: I have to add, I do not believe I am generally more intelligent than the average person. Just in some areas, while lacking in some other.