Slightly Aspie and Definitely Gifted

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Technically, 130 or above is considered gifted.

From what I've heard depending on the test if you're scoring above roughly 135 you're a genius. 145 - 150 you're in the top 2%. Boredom at work and perhaps latent narcissism have led me to take several tests. While encouraged by the results I can't help thinking back to high school, surrounded by my peers, far far more academically gifted than myself. It was an entrance examined school though after getting in I felt the dimmest there.

Don't even get me started on my social skills!

It has been my experience/observation that there is a remarkable disconnect between the "gifted" (I actually hate that word) and the struggle to keep up. For example, I did very well in the languages and very poor in math skills: I tested into college-level english when I was a freshman in HS, played with the local university band as a sophmore in HS yet I never got past geometry in HS.
This seems to be very common in persons with Asperger's.
After a series of tests, lots-n-lots of tests (MMPI, IQ, etc) I feel more informed yet fractured all at once:
IQ of 132 but can't keep a job longer than a year.
Considered "gifted" (grrrr) but in all the "wrong" things. "Why couldn't he be smart at math?"
A near-eidetic memory for anything heard yet I can't balance a checkbook.
Taught myself to play piano by watching and listening to other players but I crumble when asked to recall a series of events at work.
So many typicals of someone with Aspergers.
I don't like being associated with the word "gifted"- it makes me highly uncomfortable. As though I didn't work very hard for something as I should have. Like there's a certain level of expectation that I will fail to fulfill.

Am I just rambling again?

great, yet another gifted aspie good luck with being a "know it all" -_-'

I *know* I'm in the "extremely gifted" IQ range, but I really identify more with the moderately gifted everywhere else.

I've had my nose stuck into something with print in it for about my entire life, so being a reject never really bothered me.

Reading all this only makes me shake my head at orngjce223's pretentious attitude...

Uh...

Let me try again.

I'm happy with who I am. If you have a problem with that, it hardly matters to me.

I think what people mean is that it's not necessarily good to boast about being intelligent, as it can make other people feel worse in comparison.

When I was tested in grade 6, I was qualified as having "average" intelligence, but I'm not sure I believe that as I always tend to score in the top 2-3% of the state for pretty much everything (unless I try really hard or something?).

But at any rate, welcome to WP! The conversation here is quite intellectual (compared to other forums at least) I've found, and thus more enjoyable.