Does anyone know their IQ?

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Via a standardized MENSA test - I had scored an IQ of 156, which is at the 99.971th percentile. I had taken an online test around two years ago and my score was 145.

I'd be too scared to know mine.

My IQ is pathetic...
It's 78, which is only eight points away from mild mental retardation D:

Since I am undiagnosed, I want to know if anyone knows this:
If I were to go and seek a diagnosis, then would I be classed as having high-functioning autism or AS? Because AS people are meant to have average to high IQ, and HFA people are meant to have below average or below 70 IQ.

Just wanted to know is all

Anyway, really interesting post (though everyone on here seems to have a really high IQ!)

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Aspie 172/200 Undiagnosed, but pretty sure I have it.
'Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.'

Actually, one of the definitions (there are many) of HFA is having an IQ above a certain amount (I've seen ranges from 70-85, the highest of which would mean neither you nor I would be regarded as "HF" in that one particular sense, by people who use 85 as the cutoff, but we would be by people who use 70 as the cutoff). HFA when defined by IQ isn't defined by an IQ below a certain amount, but rather an IQ above a certain amount.

With AS, it's not "average or above", it's not having the kind of cognitive delay that you're considered to have if your IQ is below 70. So above 70, still possible to be diagnosed AS. And frankly there are people dxed with AS with IQs slightly below 70, because some clinicians realize that a hard and fast cutoff is kind of pointless, and that if a person otherwise matches AS exactly except their IQ is 67 or something, they probably still have AS.

But all that is going to become pointless when the DSM-V is adopted, because it's all going to be diagnosed as autism, and AS is going to disappear into autism, as far as we know based on current predictions.

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I know mine.

133 Wechsler Belview.

I think I should have scored higher by I interpreted some of the questions literally. I am not sure to what extent I.Q. tests intended for NTs applies to Aspies. Our brains operate differently.

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I'm less than 90 but undiagnosed. My brother with high functioning autism has an IQ of 70.

Oh btw to the people that say they have an IQ equivalent to Einstein, I think you seem to be forgetting to take into account the Flynn effect and because you say you are that smart I would assume you know what it means.

They said that mine wasn't reliable and didn't give me a full-scale IQ score bcs there was too big a discrepancy btwn my verbal and my performance IQ ......I have severe NVLD......verbal IQ "high-average to superior range", performance IQ "borderline (meaning borderline intellectually disabled) -low average range". My sub-scores were also very discrepant .......I did very well on the block design test but scored in the severely MR range for some other performance tasks like reproducing (drawing) figures (darn VNLD!). Vocab is my highest score.

I have never taken an official IQ test and don't want to these days as I don't like to limit my intelligence to a number. There are many different types of intelligence and a person can have each of them to varying degrees which can combine to create different levels of ability in many different ways. IQ tests are fairly limited.

However from the days when I did used to do IQ tests at home either on the internet (not always reliable) or in IQ test books I would score around the 140s. However I tended to go more by my ability in certain areas (such as academics where I was an A grade average without needing to revise for exams etc) as an indicator of how intelligent I was in certain ways.

Intellectually I am bright (or so I conclude from my grades and the fact that my colleges would often describe me as extremely intelligent) but my social intelligence is somewhat lacking for example. On its own, without much social intelligence, my Intellectual abilities have done very little for me...because I am socially awkward and misinterpret people (I can't read them well) they will tend to assume that I am not very bright at all. If I discuss academic ideas with them then they also fail to understand me and my ideas and so conclude that I am an idiot because of that as well (I had problems working in groups at University because of that...the other students would not understand my ideas, even those written down in essays that I had been given an A grade for). Also I am presently unable to work due to my social problems so I rarely use my academic ability for anything other than my own obsessive interests anyway. They sit there dormant basically *Ahem*

Basically I am intelligent as I am intelligent and am not interested in using numbers to define me.

IQ tests are created to measure the IQ of NTs not aspies. I say that and I do very very well on IQ tests but they are not a true measure of intelligence even in NTs.