IQ and aspies

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My iq changed from 87 to 89. When i was a little kid I was mildly delayed mentally them went from above( I believe) to advrage to below advrage

There is definitely a difference between the ability to adopt and host patterns/algorithms from the outside and the ability to construct your own internally. However, none of the brain's abilities exist in a vacuum, so there is always a lot of overlap between functions/abilities.

Social interaction seem strongly based on the ability to host/copy external memes, as well as spread them. This seems true regardless of the individuals ability to analyze/understand the memes, or the ability to create new ones.

It is clear that culture determines what types of patterns that we get rewarded for recognizing, so there will always be a correlation between culture and IQ score.

By the way I like Dean Radin and think he has been quite brave in his field of study.

I don't know what my IQ is, but I suspect it is in the gifted range. I learned to read really early and have always done well in school. In some ways, that has made it easier for me, because I am able to keep up with the class and not fall behind. But when I was younger I also felt very self-conscious about being smart. My grade one teacher made me work from a different reading book from the rest of the class, and that made me feel even more isolated than I already was. I would sometimes pretend not to know things that I did know because I didn't want too much attention on me. I didn't think it was "cool" to be smart, especially since I didn't have any other talents besides school stuff. So in some ways I think I would have almost felt more normal if I had a lower IQ.

I took a Mensa test at 30, soon after I'd had my first child, as I felt my brain had turned to mush with looking after her (she was was hyperactive and has many other mental problems as she has grown up). I got a score of 165, which I was ok with that, as I'd been scored just a little higher than that when I was at school, and getting that score gave me confidence that I hadn't lost much of my previous logical thinking.

As others have said, it is just a score in a test, a test that my brain is just made for. I excelled at Mathematics at school and university (got a First Class Honours, with 100% mark on my logics final and my thesis being taken on as teaching material by the university).
But I narrowly scraped through subjects at school where I had to write my opinions about things (like History, Economics, etc) as I just didn't get it - things are or they're not - I can only deal with facts.
A super-high IQ doesn't help you deal with life or other people, and I've NEVER told anyone except my closest relatives what my IQ is, as I often don't act intelligently around people.

This is correct. IQ is more of a test of rote-memorisation-ability than that of innovative-ability.

I don't think my IQ says much about me that's important in real life. I may be able to do a lot of tasks well in a quiet room where the only objective is to do a straightforward task that I have received instructions for, but in my opinion, if I can't have meaningful interactions with friends and have enough common sense to live independently, I'm not very intelligent overall.

I think application of intelligence of things that people do in daily life and towards their goals and relationships with others is much more important than IQ numbers.

Practical application is where it's at. Sometimes I feel as if I have a head full of useless ephemera- interesting stuff, perhaps, but how well do I function? What practical purpose does my existence fulfill? I am still working on that one.

Some days I do extremely well navigating the world of normal, and other days I am a dismal failure.

As I once told my son, if I do nothing else for you, I might make you laugh, and hopefully I will help expand your vocabulary.

If that's all it's worth to have an IQ of 157 at age 5, then apparently that number or that classification doesn't mean that much. When I was younger I'd have given anything to be physically, intellectually and socially "normal" like both of my sisters were- anything to not be the freak. They were pretty and popular, and played sports, and had all the right friends, even if they actually did have to study and struggle to get decent grades. I was the geeky, sickly little klutz kid with the bad glasses and worn out clothes who was always terrified and hiding behind a book.

Today I rather prefer the way I am. I am quite comfortable in my own company, and as far as what anyone else thinks about that, just being the way I am tells me who my friends are- and aren't. It took many years to get to that place though.

IQ number alone means little in my opinion.
High IQ doesn't make someone a genius.
Innovations using intelligence make people geniuses.

Imagine you have a large key-ring with a couple hundred different keys on it and throughout the day different people come up to you with a different lock and expect you to quickly find the key that fits their lock on your ring so you can unlock for them.

You can always unlock their lock eventually by going through a systematic pattern checking routine. It just takes some time and may appear a bit clumsy.

Now maybe it's a bit easier to understand how one can have a very high IQ yet still have trouble functioning in society.

I have found that the systematic pattern checking routine doesn't apply much in my life.
I don't apply it during social interactions, which are me being myself, or non-social tasks of daily living, which I have learned and are fast and automatic.