Aspergers and traumatic experiences

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Insecure about my intelligence, people tell me I'm smart but I can't see how.

I'm sure it's not so bad. Welcome to Wrong Planet.

What constitutes intelligence is incredibly vague and complex in my opinion.

If others are telling you that you're smart it's likely because they view you as someone that learns and applies what they observe you doing relatively easily.

The first Google definition for intelligence is: 'The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.'


If you're insecure about your intelligence that's perfectly understandable, as I don't really see how someone could not be in a way regardless of IQ or anything else. Obviously having a high IQ shows that you're quite adept in some areas of learning, though it doesn't really indicate a more holistic intellectual ability. You will always have areas of strength, and areas of weakness. Some of these areas may not even be tested on an IQ test (such as art for example) but they do require intelligence. It's stereotypically assumed that maths = logic = intelligence, or literate = educated = intelligence and that everything else is below that or not related to intellect at all, and that annoys me. There are so many fields of intelligence that I could write about this all day, but a wall of text is unhealthy for the brain.

I'm not too sure how traumatic experiences and Asperger's comes into this.

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