As an aspie, how does your intelligence compare with others?

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Being an aspie in itself forces you to be more intelligent you have to figure out how to get past problems presented to you by the condition and that helps build your intelligence.

Neural Pruning: the lack of : one might consider this to be a great advantage in referencing information from recollection of past experiences . So if in any given decision might have the advantages of having more info to draw on based on this lack of neural pruning , conversely
all the attached emotions and issues that were triggered during the formation of these memories
are also a issue that could effect decision making ability , however subtle, those memories were at the time of formation. IMHO. Hopefully the more positive memories would standout ...

I'll show you my intelligence if you'll show me your intelligence

I don't really consider myself smart in comparison. Just average. However, I do consider myself to be more mindful of things (e.g. gathering all relevant omgormatik information and analyzing it ahead of time, thinking and weighing options before deciding on something, etc.)

Having a high I.Q. is nice, but I would rather care about what one can do with it than what the score is. It is much like owning a fancy sports car. You can brag all you want to others (with it sitting safe in your garage) or you can drive it like it is intended to be done. I would rather use it to create and/or do something that no one has done yet. It is what drives my creativity to new levels.

Sometimes it can be a curse to be too gifted. I had a very lonely childhood overall and was often bullied because I was so different from my peers. Very few could understand me at my level on one subject, let alone all of them that I was good at. I was not allowed to compete in my school’s science fairs, as I had an unfair advantage. I learned how to hide my skills from others at that point in time.

At the university I work at, i often deal with self-proclaimed “geniuses” who claim that they cannot do publishable research without spending at least $50,000+ worth of grant money. I have been looked down upon by them since I joined the department. They are completely mentally lazy and very spoiled from my point of view. I do not think that way. During the COVID lockdown last year, I developed and completed a research project for a new material that only cost about $20 worth of supplies in total. I have since improved the process down to less than $2 per experimental run. It can be done by nearly anyone who has the time and knowledge. The research is currently in the writing stages for publication with my collaborator. I did this so that I could prove those people wrong on so many levels. Once this is published (along with a connecting project), I plan on leaving to another job. It is kinda my professional middle finger to them.