Are aspies smart?

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They are rating intelligence by the measurement of IQ scores.

I looked at a chart here describing "What Different IQ Scores Mean":

Over 140 - Genius or near genius
120 - 140 - Very superior intelligence
110 - 119 - Superior intelligence
90 - 109 - Normal or average intelligence
80 - 89 - Dullness
70 - 79 - Borderline deficiency
Under 70 - Definite feeble-mindedness

But if you want my honest opinion, there is not a single test you can take that will remotely determine any type of intelligence.

I think "Aspies" fool themselves into thinking they are smart because they do good in school and/or get good test scores when they only real way that I could measure intelligence is by evaluating the choices people make.

I couldn't evaluate my own intelligence because obviously every choice I choose to make is the choice that I think is the right one .

In fact, I don't think you can determine intelligence because it seems to me in like 99% of real life situations everyone else is basically always the same. They always make the same decisions and they always let bad judgment get in the way.

yes.

I don't even know what my IQ is.

My internet IQ falls within 120-140 category, as well as my NT brother's. However, my standardized test scores (the tests that matter which I didn't worry about until now) lag badly. Lars Perner once said that divergent thinkers tend to diverge out of the standardized scales.

The whole normal or above average IQ thingy is there to make people feel better; you aren't like the dumb auties where only 1/4 are normal, the rest subnormal.

What throws me is is it normal, 90 to 109 or above, or average 100 or above. Either way it cuts off the bottom, hence overall higher scores.

I would say I got more from obsession, than from intelligence. I have it, it was never that useful, compared to persistance, which works most of the time.

Smart I would define as doing what works for you.

After a six months study of AS, a recent discovery, I still conclude Psychology is a total fraud.

They have yet to grasp basic number use, and have defined a Syndrome comprising 6,853% out of which we each get 100%, and no two the same.

There are bright people with quirks, always have been, but we can make some money off of them.

I am smart enought to spot a con when I see it.

Millions of us just grew up, worked, lived, married, had children, I think we are more of the business owners. We wanted to do it our way, it worked for us.

Since 1994 I hear of the same group needing drugs, thearpy, and then not developing, not going on into life, all I can see is treatment is causing more harm, and some people are making money off off it.

Compared to Psychology, History is a Hard Science. Does a Masters in History confer the power to arrange future History? Despense drugs to induce Historically Correct Behavior?

I will do what works for me.

3 things to remember while debating this:

1. Smart does not equal intelligent.

2. Smartness is all relative anyway.

3. What the hell is with the football players are dumb stereotype?

On paper, I have a high IQ and was always in the top 2% at high school. However, I have virtually no concept of how to develop or apply or consider abstract ideas - the whole thing usually just floors me and leaves me totally confused.

Even though I'm relatively good artist, even with that I can't "do abstract". It has to be a clear representation of a real object.

i am very smart!! !!!1111

I think they're alot of us who are smart ,but just beause you have a high IQ doen't really mean much. you are what you are.