How can I have such a high IQ and yet be so slow???

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How is it possible that someone can have an IQ of 143 and still be really slow?

I find I am really slow when I have to say something. I always feel like the person talking to me is pressuring me and trying to get a response as fast as possible. Whenever I talk, it feels like there is nothing to talk about and that the people I speak to have nothing in common.

If I do not talk about the things I like. I have nothing to say... I might describe it as similar to the poverty of speech experienced by schizophrenics, because I cannot find any list that has poverty of speech as an autistic condition.

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I'm the same. I think many of us are.

High IQ is often balanced by low Social Q.

I don't see it as a problem for me ... more a problem for others.

I think adopting an automatic instant response is required. Something like "Let me think about that for a moment".

Saying nothing is seen by others as rude and ignorant, even if that's far from the truth.

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Well I wouldn't know about having a high IQ but I certainly understand what you are talking about.

Yes, this is common because we have issues multitasking--communicating in person with someone else actually involves several different communication channels working simultaneously.

You might memorize a few useful phrases--just pick the one that seems most appropriate. If you get it wrong, don't worry about it--it you don't make a fuss most NTs will forget about it completely. "fill the space" and move along...

DO lots of brain vomiting: Record yourself speaking for 10 minutes with the goal of not having a single silent second. Do that every day for a mouth and you'll be cured. It's important that you record yourself cause it creates a mild pressure that you need.

Hm... I really like that idea. Haven't done it myself but I might start.....

S**t! Thank you, for blowing my mind right now!

I'm glad I could help you. I have to tell you it's possible that you feel unhearted at some point because this pumps up a lot a resources out of your system. When you get stuck, don't feel you failed, feel you dig the hole a bit further. It's important that you don't think about sense, but just about rate, just feel the words coming out of your mouths.

IQ measures your ability to take IQ tests, not your intelligence (which is not in any case amenable to simple measurement.) Next?

I've read a lot about this in trying to figure out why my son has this same problem.

Apparently some people on the spectrum (especially the ones who have a kind of inattentive ADD) just have a slower processing speed. The smarts are there, it's just the ability to get what's in your head OUT is slower or stalled.

I REALLY like TheWingman's idea. That's absolutely BRILLLIANT.

Well I don't know what my IQ is, I am under the impression it could be rather high, but I cannot say for sure......but yeah sometimes I respond slow if someone talks to me and I don't talk as fast as a lot of people. Also sometimes I will forget what I am talking about mid-sentence and am very easily distracted by other noise and stuff going on if I am talking to someone.

I was also going to say this... but you beat me to it...

also i think everyone here can somewhat relate...

Because, you probably have very good reasoning skills. I, and other peoiple on this forum, have described that have to reason through everything. NTs appear to have an ability to process some information and stimuli subconsiously taking the load of their need to reason through things and helping them process complex situations much faster.

That's my theory, simplified, anyway.

Neurotypicals often make assumptions which makes reasoning through the rest of the details much faster. If the assumption is wrong, they change the decision/thinking. Through a history of trial/error, they get a "feel" for which assumptions are more accurate than not, which allows them to speed up the processing speeds with experience. This is essentially how they process social situations - i.e., through the use of stereotypes and superficial to semi-superficial judgments. It can be faulty but it can make decision making pretty quick. And, in a superficial world, you don't *really* need to be accurate 100% of the time; mistakes are often easily overlooked and if it's a really critical mistake, just blow the person off - you have your own friends, anyways, after all. Who needs to please everyone with 100% accuracy? If anything, being a nit-picky pedant is a social faux pas.

I have 136 out of 138 because the woman doing the test said we had enough data to diagnoise me (I often wonder what my full result is) And i've always wondered how can i be apparently so clever yet so daft lol. I was told its because i use my IQ not for academic reasons but to simply fit in with my surroundings, to act normal and to be able to read other people. I';m not very good at either so if i didnt have the IQ I'd be worse than a vulcan at emotions lol. maybe the same is with you?

welcome to WP by the way