Asperger's Severity: Part 3: IQ

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It could be that WrongPlanet members have a higher average IQ, rather than high IQ people preferentially responding or people overestimating IQ.

Think about it - in order to participate in this forum, you pretty much have to be able to read and write at least at an average level. If you had an IQ of 75 or so and PIQ>VIQ you may not be literate enough for a text-based interaction system. Furthermore, high IQ individuals tend to be more introspective and more curious, so a high IQ AS person is more likely to seek out information about AS, either for curiosity or self-understanding. Plus, if your IQ is above 130, that's an added abnormality, making you feel even more different than you would with just AS and an average IQ, and therefore more likely to seek out your peers. And if you have a high IQ, people may have higher expectations of you, and you may have higher expectations of yourself, which makes the impairment of AS more frustrating, thereby increasing the need for a support group.

I tested with a "genius" IQ, and while that does seem to help with a lot of things, it doesn't seem to have a significant impact on my overall impairments. I find it frustrating to talk about IQ here or other similar forums because of the long list of assumptions people have about IQ that might be true for them (or not) but are not true for everyone. Research tends to find that IQ doesn't really play a role in mitigating neurological impairments, and I've seen papers on both ADHD and autism that reinforce this.

FSIQ is known to be often inaccurate when measuring intellectual functioning of people on the spectrum due to the unusually wide subscore scatter. My VCI was 12-22 points higher than the other 3 subscores, for example. I answered, though.

My WAIS IV test was more or less uninterpretable. My subtest scores were everywhere and so were my index scores. I hit the ceiling on WMI and and it was something like 55 points higher than my VCI score.

I didn't vote because I'm not diagnosed.

At least one time in school when they gave me an iq test I was told I was 130 or 131. I can't remember which.

I don't know whether to pick mild, moderate, or severe. I don't know if I could live on my own. I never really have. I can't get or keep a job.

I once tested at 134 but:

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i chose "moderate AS" because...well. i always assumed that my AS was rather mild...until I started seeing a psychologist. A good one. I was "testing the waters" so to speak and never mentioned the AS, just to see if she could see it. She did. during out third interaction she said "it is interesting...you are very good at appearing more mildly affected than you actually are. that must take a lot of energy.". i, assuming that we were still on the subject of my anxiety which is why i was there, say "mmm...not really. people are constantly asking me why i am so nervous. it's pretty obvious i think.". and she says "not that. yes, that is VERY apparent. i'm talking about the asperger's. you're very good at hiding it. it comes off as a lot less severe than i suspect it actually is. i have to REALLY watch you to see it. listen very carefully.". So...i look mild but am probably moderate (she never said whether it was moderate or severe. i dont THINK it is severe.).

Over 130 on the raven's in high school and on the high iq society's online test. Never had an officially under stringent psychological conditions one tho. Still those two came out at exactly the same number.

I don't know if I'm mild, moderate, or severe because that's an arbitrary term. I was diagnosed with just Asperger's. My IQ is over 130.