Anyone with an IQ over 130 is automatically neurodivergent ?

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I can see the argument that being exceptionally high or low in IQ might alter one's experience and perception of the world to the point that they'd inherently be considered neurologically different from average.

I dropped out of high school so I never had a traditional academic interest. Before I dropped out I took what I was told was an IQ test. It was multiple choice. I decided to answer the questions randomly. I was told that I had an IQ of 12. I don't think that they told everyone their result. I imagine they were curious as to why I scored so low. I suspect it was not even a valid IQ test. However, I was not concerned about a test that I did not want to take for the benefit of others so I tried using it for my own experiment. I had anticipated that randomness would have resulted in a slightly higher score, however, I also once lost 35 straight rolls of the dice playing Risk.

My IQ has been tested as an adult at 145, 155, and 173. However, I am suspicious of the accuracy of attempting to resolve a fractional percentage of such a diverse composite measurement.

I see this as a heritable characteristic similar to and perhaps overlapping with Aspergers (especially when considering how the four boys Hans Asperger evaluated turned out). However, I see character qualities of honesty, reliability, and kindness to be much more important.

In my experience whether a result of a neurology that is faster, more sensitive, or more complex, having to sort through what might be considered an avalanche of sensory and cognitive input can provide significant developmental and functioning challenges. While different than physical challenges of being too short or too tall, there can be similar difficulties in that being different is not always accepted.

In the words of someone who was estimated to be exceptionally intelligent,using the PAIQ( Primary Assessment of Intelligence and Quantitative skills).



I have been accepted most of all by 2 very different groups of people . Firstly other members of a forum for those with schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses. I've been a member there since c1998. Secondly the FB high IQ community,that I started getting involved with in March 2020. Prior to that I'd amassed 56 or so 'friends' since May 2009. Now I have approximately x6.38 more 'friends'. The vast majority being those from the high IQ community who have sent me friendship requests.

I was expecting to be told,sooner rather than later, that I wasn't good enough to be be part of that community. In fact the opposite is true. Due to 'bullying related trauma' I struggle when it comes to self confidence and self worth. I struggle with feeling that I'm too inferior to be part of the community. I stack up reasonably well however against a group of people much better educated and on average much younger than I am.

Unfortunately I have moderately severe EF deficits, especially re organising and planning . Something that's been true from as far back as I can remember. It's only now having mentioned my symptoms to intellectual high fliers, some of whom have ADHD, that it's been suggested that I may well have ADHD -inattentive type. Far too late,if true, to make much of a difference. It does explain a lot though.