Gifted or Aspie?

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oh yah I have an IQ of 240, beat that!


besides arne't we all gifted in our own way? For instance, Justin Bieber is gifted at making guys hate him for no good reason, and Tom Cruise is gifted at acting. And i'm gifted at not falling off the track on rainbow road.


u dont have to be real smart or score high IQ to be gifted at least in your area of expertise. My expertise is acting like a typical 18 year old.

Can autism and giftedness be co-morbid? I was labelled gifted in school. My IQ is supposed to
be around 140. I think it goes like this:

We all have one mind, of exactly the same capacity. If you get more of something in
there, something else has to go. I don't know anyone who is gifted in one area and
well-rounded in all other areas.

So, yes.

ok then having aspergers and having a genius IQ can be comorbid whatever that means. I'm obviously not a verbal genius. But I do know that having Aspergers can make you appear smarter. Many Aspies tend to be logical and nerdy so they appear to be smarter even if they're just average intelligence.




Not all aspies are logical and nerdy, there are cool, hip, sport loving aspies out there. even if they're rare. We all dont come from a cookie cutter

you're are still young, don't get to caut up with the labels....try and just be yourself and learn to enjoy who you are- you are who you are for a reason god made ya that way for a reason (don't flame me- if you disagree keep it to yourself or make your reply unrelated to my own.)

I have Asperger's, is highly gifted (IQ approx 145, officially tested but could be higher or lower)...I'm what people call 2E.
I'm currently trying not to flunk out of high school (I'm Taiwanese though...)+ win an International Biology Olympiad gold medal at the same time.

Being a child prodigy isn't necessarily the same thing as being a gifted child. Prodigies have more of a specialty and do things unusually early; gifted kids are just generally better at learning.

And yeah, you can be gifted and autistic, though if you're autistic, then the IQ test really doesn't say much about you. Those things are normed on neurotypical kids, and the assumptions they make about development aren't valid if you happen to be autistic. Forget about trying to predict specific skills, or make estimates about the past or the future. For autistics, IQ tests aren't worth much more than a rough gauge of strengths and weaknesses.

BTW: If you are autistic and gifted and you think that your giftedness makes your autism okay, please do the world a favor and think about what that implies. It means that if you're not gifted, then your autism is not okay. It places worth on you based on your skills. If you got a knock on the head and lost fifty IQ points, you'd suddenly be worth much less. Do you really want to buy into that? I sure don't. You're okay regardless of whether you're gifted or not, regardless of whether you're autistic or not.

Hi LAlien,

Can you elaborate on what you mean by having a high IQ? Your IQ does not necessarily having high intelligence when it comes to academics. There are your verbal IQ and processing IQ. I apologize if I sound rude but that's the way I personally see it. You mentioned not being able to read facial expressions and the fact you are clumsy....have you ever heard of a neurodevelopmental disability called nonverbal learning disorder? A minor part of it is not reading body language very well and having fine motor issues i.e not holding a pen or pencil well, having poor balance, etc, etc. People with NLD are also extremely verbal while lacking in areas that require nonverbal abilities. We get our information through verbal communication and that's how we try to relate to others. Also, an area of academic weakness with NLD is math.

Unfortunately nonverbal learning disability and Asperger's Syndrome overlap so much that it's hard to tell the difference. The only way to really find out is to get a psychological evalution.

I understand having certain interests, being clumsy, and not reading body language very well either because I have nonverbal learning disability. From the information you gave doesn't really scream autism spectrum disorder because it honestly wasn't enough information. Those of us with NLD have certain interests because that's how we relate to people verbally and we don't know how to socialize otherwise. It's very awkward because we can't understand the required body language or voice tone or we miss the cues that the conversation is over or has started.

Anyways...I apologize for the rambling. NLD has become a certain interest for me. Lol.

http://www.grcne.com/giftedAsperger.html

Aspies can be gifted in compensation for areas of the brain that are atypical in their development. From my experience, I had severe developmental delays from age 2-5, and even though I've outgrown these, the deficits are still there albeit in a mild form. In a sense, Aspies that are gifted at spelling and memory have brain wiring that favors that kind of stimulation.