Are AS people truly intelligent ?

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A rare few people's minds work like computers, and what I learned from the one example of a person whose mind worked this way, they did have problems with discriminating, learning, drawing conclusions, etc.

I suppose the Wikipedia article about the guy I learned about in school doesn't say the exact same thing I just said about him though
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Shereshevsky

This article http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2008/12/ ... ct-memory/ is closer to what I learned about him.

A 'normal' human mind organizes and categorizes information in a way drastically different from how we are exposed to it. I fully believe that we will eventually create computers that rival the human brain in learning and understanding capabilities, but whether or not it would be conscious is another thing completely.

One might consider a computer highly intelligent if they don't associate 'intelligence' with requiring a mind.

What is the correct term?

Learning disability.

Yes, people with Aspergers Syndrome can very well be intelligent. Not overall more intelligent than neurotypical people, they are just intelligent in a different way.

For instance, AS people often have a great long term memory, while neurotypical people often have a great short term memory.

Anything that describes a lack of intelligence aside from that word.

The word ret*d refers to mental retardation... And if you have asperger's, by definition Aspies cannot have an iq lower than that threshold. If they are... we are classified as autistic. So, no... we have none as aspies.

why on earth dont i get a note when people quote me?

On the spectrum, certainly, but no, mentally ret*d do not receive a diagnosis of Asperger.

Because the board is not set up that way

I don't know but a lot of NTs I know seem to be more intelligent than I am, or at least their intelligence is more useful than mine.
One example for all:
The best student in my class: his IQ is around 120, just like mine. Differences? He's a real genius and I am not. He is good at everything and gets As in every subject; I, except some subjects I really like/am really good at, am just average or below average. When you hear him speaking he looks much more intelligent than me because people can actually understand what he is saying. He's an NT.
I look way stupider than him and other intelligent NTs I know.

You can have an IQ of 71 and be diagnosed as having Aspergers by clinicians who are not using the DSM 5.

Thanks for sharing this. My understanding is that the WAIS-IV contains 3 tests that measure Fluid Reasoning (Gf):
- Similarities
- Matrix Reasoning
- Arithmetic

I tested higher in these areas than others. Whatever that means.

Yeah. I know a gal of 15 on deviantART that scored 89 on the IQ test and was diagnosed with Asperger's.
Also IQs are just measures; a person with an IQ below 100 can be intelligent as well. Kim Peek used to score below average on IQ tests but don't tell me he was not intelligent.

It's not uncommon for people with some form of physical disability to develop better than average skills with the means they do have. Deaf people may develop good visual skills (lip reading?), for example.

It makes sense for this to occur with neurological disabilities as well. Many autists who succeed somewhat in the social area and in the world at large do so because they develop an ability to reason their way to things NTs do intuitively.

I feel that I am more intelligent than a lot of neurotypical people, particularly those of my own age (22). As to whether that is because I retain information more consistently, or because I actually have a cognitive advantage over them, I don't know. My main ability which is accelerated is my language skill, which at it's base level involves memory and repetition, both of which are Autistic traits. Perhaps it is just that our learning style is more regimented and precise, so our overall "intelligence" or "learning system" appears to be more highly developed.

I've been told that I'm intelligent. I don't always believe it, though. It's mainly due to my being hyperlexic and being good at arts and crafts and writing. When I was around I was told I was about as smart as an 18-year old. In spite of this my grades were absolutely plummeting and teachers called me selfish and immature. I think most people with AS have average or above average intelligence. It's like a compensation for the things most NT people learn to do easily like tie their own shoes (which I couldn't do until I was 9 but once drew a detailed picture of the hospital I went to to have my tonsils out at 4), or socializing.

As a computer scientist, I can easily answer both:

1. Yes, we aren't like computers at all.
2. No, computers aren't intelligent at all.