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I'm not sure of my IQ, it's definitely not below average and may possibly be above. I'm afraid to know more than that

Doesn't really matter when you're AS. Your skills will be all over the place anyway, so your IQ (an average of some of your skills) won't predict much.

Average AS IQ is above average NT IQ by definition. Take the bottom few percentiles out of any population and the average moves up. It's a statistical artifact, and possibly an artifact of the way Aspies are diagnosed AS rather than Autism (many doctors will say Autism if the IQ comes out low normal or seems low even if the proper diagnosis should be Asperger's).

And they give out an Asperger's diagnosis instead of a diagnosis of classical if a test says that someone's IQ is high normal, above average or even gifted.

At TPE2 and Ruyuen I am dyslexic please give me a break I wish to not be chastised in a bloody online forum when I am chastised frequently out side

thank you

Ruyuen was chastising TPE2 for complaining about your lack of punctuation without even spelling punctuation correctly. From what I could tell, only the first comment was directed at you. The second was directed at someone who would whine about someone else's typing while not typing very well themselves.
(Speaking of which.. my spell checker is underlining "else's".. is that incorrect? None of the suggestions make sense.)

I think Ruveyn was poking fun at TPE2, who criticized your punctuation, but misspelled "punctuation" while doing so... at least that's how I see it

(completely off-subject) your writing reminds me of a famous series of newspaper columns, archy and mehitabel, which were supposedly typed by a cockroach who typed by jumping onto the keys. Obviously he couldn't type anything that required the shift key, so his typing was always lower case and without punctuation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_and_mehitabel

Wait, why do people take IQ seriously? Especially whether or not you have a "high" IQ. If you have an especially low IQ it might be indicative of something, because the purpose of the test is really to determine whether someone is deficient in particular areas (and may need special assistance in the educational system). The last time I had an IQ test it was to this end. I don't think (official, recognised) IQ tests are bad at all for this sort of purpose, but I don't see how they can identify "geniuses".

Very little is understood about the mind to this day, and in particular about human intelligence. I suspect that assertions that we can determine who the geniuses are - or even who is particularly "above average", or to what extent that notion is sensible - fall into the realm of pseudoscience.

My psychometrist who specializes in ASD's said that the "red flag" of AS is a wide discrepancy in the various test scores of the IQ test. For example, my verbal comprehension is at 131 but my level of functionality is at 60. My performance IQ is dead on normal at 100.

Right on!

ruveyn

I wonder how they measured the "level of functionality"... VABS, maybe?...

Ignore it... it doesn't know what it's talking about

Spell checkers do not talk.

ruveyn

Ah, that's a literary device called "personification", wherein one attributes personality or thought to an inanimate object. Ex., "The brooding sky."