Having AS and a really high intelligence ?

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Brain volume... I don't know if that even has anything to do with intelligence. After all, a lot of learning isn't making new connections; it's severing the ones that don't work.

Maybe autistics have more connections because the way we think is more localized; so an NT might have a smaller number of long-distance connections, and an autistic does the same thing with a bunch of local ones. We do tend to focus on details, so that makes sense. I don't think it has much to do with intelligence.

They measured mine with a rather inflated IQ test, which stuck me in the "Genius" level, which I'm... not. I identify more with the moderate-gifties than those kids who learn three languages of their own volition before 7 and AP Calc BC before graduating middle school. I'm rather well-distributed in brain matter for an Aspie, I suppose (good reading and math and all that), but it all went to the academic subjects. Nobody else understands my essays, and for certain nobody else understands my head's filesystem.

It's like I run on NTFS and everyone else's the FAT16 filesystem, and I do better on said tests just because I have it all filed and on the master file table so that I can get it more quickly.

The limbic system, however, is proving very hard to categorize.