IQ test scores

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On intelligence tests with a strong verbal orientation, I do quite well. On one test given to me by an evaluator, I completely tanked on the block design test, which lowered my score to the average range. It was a humiliating experience.

I don't like those ugly worm eaters. These are pretty, and quite nasty (at least vocally). They'll steal anything too. Hmm...maybe I could attract one as a partner?

having a low IQ doesn't make you any less of an aspie spite what anyone says
it is a general fact that aspies have a high IQ but you don't need a high IQ to be an aspie

mine is only 129

Uh, 100 is the norm. You are above the average. It doesn't matter though, what bonds us together is not some supre-intellect, but rather a seemingly random series of traits.

Well, when last I took the test( about 3 years ago) my score was 128 . But like Anakin "I want more!...and i know I shouldn't"

I also have a problem with timed I.Q tests, being conscious of the time distracts me similar to my sensory problems of noises. I also spend more time reading a question and interpreting it properly, this timing issue is more of a AS deficiency than an intellectual one.
However if were all to engage in a non-timed IQ test were ( our timing delays were taken into consideration), we would probably score higher.

SteveK - kid was autistic, but had no language delay and was mentally ret*d. He couldn't be deemed as having autistic disorder because of no qualitative impairment in communication, but couldn't be an Aspie because of his low IQ, so the clinician dx's him with both MR and AS! You can't make this stuff up

I *think* this was in a country other than the US, though. By American standards, the kid would have been DXd PDD-NOS, I'm guessing.

Goodwill industrys scored me as having an IQ of 92 . I hate Goodwill by the way.

All IQ tests are BS IMO. Until science learns how to understand non NT neuro processing, testing aspies will always be guess work. Its like trying to take an IQ test in a foreign language that you only slightly understand. Ive been anywhere from 135 to 185. And I still have trouble figuring out and doing simple things that NTs dont think twice about. So what good is IQ.

You have to be careful about IQ tests
A properly done one will have two scores

a verbal IQ and a performance one.
Example my verbal IQ is 146 but my performance IQ is 94.

Often aspies will have a big variation between the two.

Good point. I recently read a statement somewhere that pretty much sums up my daughters:

"They know the answer; they don’t understand the question."

Lack of language comprehension, especially in young children who can't read (and thus must have the test administered by a professional who may or may not understand the nature of ASDs and may or may not understand their communication difficulties), certainly depresses IQ scores on the standards tests.

My girls were tested at four, and they both scored significantly lower on the verbal sub-tests than on the non-verbal sub-tests (18 and 22 points). That's an indicator of autism, btw. Anecdotal evidents suggests that Aspies often have the opposite profile (score higher on verbal, lower on performance).

On the one apitude test that I took that had a verbal and non-verbal break down, my verbal score was approximately 2% higher than my non-verbal score, which is just noise, really (I'm basically NT).