Do ppl think you're intelligent?

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It is very, well, I won't say intelligent, but clever to point out that intelligence is difficult to precisely define. It is the subject of some scientific and philosophic study.

But even I (meticulous as I am) understand that the term is being used in the colloquial sense in this thread. Perhaps debating the true meaning of the word should be the topic of another, more clever, thread.

Responding to the OP, in case there has been any digression:

Probably like most people with AS, my answer to this question is yes. My teachers called me "brilliant"; everyone I've ever known has, to my knowledge, regarded me as at least intelligent (this was always my label in social circles). However, this is coupled with an almost disablingly bad short-term memory and extremely poor language skills (writing skills considerably better, speaking skills in 'comfortable', one-sided situations also considerably better), so I would not have been surprised if the opposite was true. Its strange how people can hold such opinions of somebody who is so generally low-functioning .

I certainly have always felt (up until suggestions that I might have AS and correspondingly did a bit, and then a lot, of research on it) that this is a sign of my basic and total lack of intelligence -- I long thought that I was simply so unintelligent that it had come full circle, and couldn't be measured on IQ tests (or detected by my peers and seniors).

Yes, I have been called a genius, I'm the student that every kid comes to for help. I help other people more than I do my own work. It's actually pretty annoying since I can never do my own work.

I only have an 82% average too so its not like I'm actually a genius.

Yes and no. No because of my social ineptitude. I too think yes and no, because I'm not happy, but I spend a lot of time idling around, because I don't know what to do about it.

Most of the time people say I come off as more arrogant and pretentious because of my propensity towards using 'big words'. I've even been called condescending.

However, that's generally after their initial assumption that I'm an airhead because I often have difficulty with my speech and often repeat things I hear in repetition.

What I get most often is *gasp!* "You looked so innocent! I can't believe you just said that!"

Yeah people think I'm very intelligent because I can memorize mountains of facts and learn languages really fast. I think they're wrong though because I rarely actually draw my own conclusions about things. To me, having insight is a sign of intelligence, not memorization, no matter how complex.

Teachers in my school said I was but the other students called me ret*d so much I pretty much quit studying for tests or really giving a s**t about doing well. Why bother there must be something wrong if that many people mess with me back then.

I have been told that I am so smart that it makes me appear dumb,

I also know a person who hates me keeps telling me he thinks I am smart or clever but really wants to call me a ret*d but everyone knows I have ADHD so he does not want to look like he is discriminating against me. Also some of our shared friends are HFA. But around people who he thinks does not know me he will let them really know how he feels about me. But what he says has always come back to haunt him not to mention reach my ears..

Yes and they make use of it.
I'm the guy people go to if they need backup, help, advice etc.

Yes...except my family. I think my family never understood my differences...they focused only on the bad...so my parents don't think I'm very smart at all...HOWEVER, once I was in the real world, many adults who had worked in the company for years, were well respected in our field, etc...would compliment me constantly and tell me how smart I was...I didn't believe it at all since I was told so many years what a PITA I was...hmmm...eventually after years of working, I realized there were alot of stupid people out there...so maybe I wasn't so stupid...hehe

Yes. Mainly because I am.

ruveyn

Everyone seems to think I'm intelligent, including people I've just met. I just give off an air of an intellect. It could be the way I speak; it could also be because I look like a nerd (glasses and bad fashion sense and all). I find this annoying in some cases, where people seem to think that since I'm more intelligent than other people, I should also have better social skills, organizational skills, and common sense than the rest of the population, when in fact the opposite is true. I think people also overestimate my intellect; for instance, my current employer when he was interviewing me for the job said that I could probably take the cash registers apart and put them back together. It's like just because I'm an an aspie geek, they think I'm some sort of god.

I think people think I'm a moron, although maybe I project that onto them. I'm very smart though.

People, other students/friends used to be shocked that I could do well in school because I was socially inept/challenged and my conversations revolved around strength training and sex stuff. Not much has changed except I added 2 topics/interests. My very close friends think I'm a lot smarter than I am and when I tell them it's just because I'm much more interested in certain stuff than they are they don't believe me.

If they don't they are complete idiots.

I am fairly intelligent, but people tend to think I'm smarter than I actually am. I'm not sure why this is.