Autistic ability "underestimated", says BBC

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4740178.stm

I haven't heard of either the Wechsler scale or the Raven's Progressive Matrices (it wasn't my intelligence that was ever in question as a child, just my other (dis)abilities)... however, i do think "Raven's Progressive Matrices" sounds like an excellent name for a band

Of course, i don't think many people here will find these findings at all surprising...

I do not find it surprising

me neither

I was tested on a version of these on Thursday, while I was a subject for research at Cambridge university. I was seriously annoyed when I had to guess at one picture, and totally floored by another one.

Yes, I can see that theywould be very useful as separate assessment from word skills.

We also ran association tests, and picture-matching skills. This for a project on learning and processing in autism, which may help improve the presentation of materials beyond just autistic situations.

i knew that when i was like nine

me like music and books duh

I don't find that suprising, at all. It's about time that somebody made up an article to prove this point. I've been underestimated my whole life, by my Family. I'm sure that many more people on the Spectrum have also been underestimated by their Families and Teachers. Maybe the General Population will wake up and realise how capable we are. The World would be a much nicer place. The thing is that I don't act like I'm Mentally Challenged. In fact, most people don't know that I'm on the Spectrum. It's as though the average person would look at the words, Autism, Aspergers and especially the word, Syndrome and sirens will go off in their head.

heheheheee...I feel the NTs are slow and have much to learn. What do you think of the headline "Neurotypical ability a Tad Bit Overestimated"?

A lot of times people underestimate me because I can't explain things to people very well, like in some classes in school. It doesn't mean I can't understand others when they explain something to me, but it's the other way around. Sometimes I've noticed that I could understand things better than some others can because of my visual means of thinking. I don't want to be considered way smarter than everyone else all the time, but I'm merely saying that some of the time people underestimate my skills.

That happens to me too
but on the original subject

I think that alot of very low-functioning people are legitimately limited and such but we must remember that it's a spectrum so it's very easy to just say all or none and the world just isn't like that.