How smart are you?

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I have a smart phone. Does that count?

But honestly I don't know. My ASD assessment says it wasn't necessary to do a full IQ test, just the verbal and nonverbal components. There was no such thing as Gifted when I went to school. I've done a few online IQ tests and I come out high or superior or whatever their jargon is, but I don't know if they're reliable. Also, if you do an online IQ test are you allowed to use a pencil for the maths? I assumed I couldn't, so I did it all in my head. With a pencil I would have been higher.

My math abilities are completely non-existent, whether it's writing down or in my head. In fact I'm so terrible at math that I make people laugh with my poor working out, but I don't get offended, because I find it funny too (they don't laugh horribly).

Spelling and punctuation is great, but my vocabulary isn't very good, although not enough to notice when I'm around NTs but it notices when I'm on WP. (Not that anybody here has pointed it out to me, I just notice it when I read other people's posts). I like writing stories but I'm not sure if I'm that good at it though, as like I said my vocabulary isn't very big and I find it hard to learn new big words to use in a sentence.

I'm good at drawing and colouring, if I'm copying something that is. I have a good imagination though and can colour fantastically, but only with colouring pens and pencils, not with paints.

I can play the keyboard but only with one hand. But I can play a lot of songs and can often teach myself, but I can't read music at all. In fact I don't know much about music at all.

I'm not very good at memorizing facts. But I have a very good autobiographical memory.

I have major issues with geography, but I think that could be related to my poor math skills.

I suck at throwing but I'm good at catching. I can't swim very well even though I've always loved swimming, but that might be related to the fact that I'm too much of a wimp to get my head under the water (also I'm not supposed to get my nose or ears under the water because I could get unwell if I get water in my sinuses and ears).

Learning foreign languages has always been challenging for me so I gave up.

Technology and computers are difficult for me too. I know the basics obviously but I'm not savvy. At school in woodwork (shop class) I designed something but had trouble making it so needed help. But I still got a good grade because of the good creative design I had come up with and the colours I chose.

I think most of my brain is too full of past memories, people's names and birthdays, and my emotions, to be able to retain more intelligent information.

I'm not the brightest star in the sky, but I am the sweetest pea on the farm.

Smarter than the average bear...

...which means pretty sub-average by human standards.

I'm too smart for words.

That's all I can say.

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I think I’m pretty smart. Plenty of people have told me that I am, and I can see it. I have very developed reading and language skills, though advanced forms of math don’t come so naturally to me. I have scored high on a couple of IQ tests, but everyone says you should take those with a grain of salt. Like any Aspie, I am very good at memorizing information relating to my special interests. However, naturally my social intelligence isn’t so high, at least when it comes to interacting with neurotypicals.

First you should define 'smart' and afterwards you can ask that.

Are you smart enough to survive on your own in wilderness without tools? Or for hunting and fishing? For repairing cars? Or programming the electronic control units of them? To build an air-craft or a rocket or a gun or a 3D TV? Smart enough to deal the best way with all other people? Can you tell the distance to the center of the earth or to the sun or the galactic center and the speed that we are moving around them? Are you able to protect yourself and others? Or even to define intelligence or 'being smart' in a way that it includes alien life forms, machines and the one ants, octopuses and cats? Or even smart enough to have always fun in life?

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I'm not sure to be honest. I love to read and write. I research things a lot. But I struggle a lot with math.

I remember I was given an IQ test when in middle school, but my parents refused to tell me what my IQ was.

Having worked with people with IQs primarily under 60 now for some time, I can tell you that IQ has little to do with your ability to negotiate the world around you. Some of my clients are very smart and cunning and get along quite well, but they can't read or write or get through school.

I have come to realize in the last decade or so that it is my relatively high IQ that has allowed me to get by in this world, but that using my IQ to get by, has left little for anything else in the world.

Smarts can be measured in so many different ways.
I have had my IQ measured twice that I know the results of (my current employer tested but did not share my results).
The lower of the two was 147, the other only a few points higher. I missed one question on the SAT. I won a scholarship to a small private college and majored in Philosophy, graduated a semester early and top of my class.
I work a "blue-collar" job but make enough to support a comfortable living and add to my savings. Cicero's On Duty was a huge influence on me... I serve my community doing what I can during the day and study/read/write to improve myself on my own time.
I found out I am Aspie at the end of 2020 by accident when discussing sensory stuff with my therapist that she initially thought was PTSD. I think a lot of my quirks that would have led to a diagnosis earlier were written off because of my IQ as just part of being smart.

Not even few 'smart' people are unable to deal well with real life because you have to deal with reality and especially to deal with other people right as well. Life isn't just books nor games nor whining about the world. For being smart you have to master the reality as well. Don't hide but look up and watch the things and learn to realize them right and overcome your fears to change reality a bit for your fortune ...

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