As an aspie, how does your intelligence compare with others?

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As an aspie, how does your intelligence compare with others?
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And are we only smart at our interests?

Depends on the person.

Like everyone else, I’m smart in some things, and stupid in others.

I’m smarter than most about geography. I’m dumber than most about plumbing.

Agree with Kraftiekortie. I am smart in some places, but really dumb in others. Social situations are a good example.

The question still stands also what are you good and bad at?

In comparison to others I consider myself to be of average intelligence.

I'm educated to masters level - but what helped me here is my ability to focus and my aversion to leaving things unfinished. Sometimes at work colleagues think I am smarter than I am as a result of some of the work I produce - I dont agree with them, its down to my tenacity and how I structure things. Its a style, nothing to do with intelligence. On the other hand I often come across as below par especially in relation to social (and worse still) emotional issues - for obvious reasons and again, nothing to do with intelligence in my view.

General statement: I think quite a number of us tend to be more analytical than the average NT. I'm not sure if this is connected with autism directly, or if we're forced to be more analytical after a lifetime of wondering why so many things go wrong socially. Perhaps we train our brains to ponder more and it becomes part of our character.

Analytical thinking doesn't necessarily mean an above-average intelligence, but I do think it's almost like a life-long brain teaser that forces us to exercise more of our mental capacity than the average individual.

I'm smarter than the average bear.

Which unfortunately is quite sub-par by human standards.

I don't really have special interests and I never have done. I'm a very practical person though and I have a tendency to see something and I can instantly see how it can be made better. So in that respect I'm quite smart. I wouldnt say I'm smarter that none asd people at all. In fact I wouldn't say that I'm smarter or even as smart as most people.

I don't really want to be either. Being brainy would have never worked for me really.

I've never felt smarter than others on average. The kids at school felt like geniuses to me. I used to wonder how they contained the information the teacher was telling us, and I would sit there not having a clue what the teacher had just been telling us and so had to ask the other kids to help me with the work.

Mine is uneven enough to be compared in a contradictory manner.

But in the end, it doesn't matter.
Only that I know where I compensate and where I need less effort, I know what I dislike and like, I know where I'd be useful or useless...


WHEN I'd be, however -- that's my issue.
It confuses me. It confuses everyone else.
Sometimes I can keep up with whatever they labeled as geniuses, sometimes I might as well be average, sometimes it's best I leave everything else to others.
Sure, I can alright but how often and when?

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