Are we considered INTELLIGENT because we have to be

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I don't know, but I'm really not that intelligent, my IQ is something like 115-120, and I don't really think I'm that intelligent either, but people always seem to think I'm genius. People think I am super smart within 10 seconds of meeting me. Literally. 10 seconds. This seems to be the case with the special education assistants at my school especially. I think it's because they work with children who have intellectual disabilities mostly or something.

One special ed assistant get mad at me because we were talking about my schedule for school and I said that I had math in the morning. She said "I bet your good at math", and I'm not so I said "No, actually it's one of my worst subjects". She was very surprised and seem kind of annoyed for some reason.

I also don't like it when someone thinks I'm good at math just because I'm kind of smart in their opinion. Being smart doesn't necessarily mean being good at math.

Is it so that somebody with ASD functioning at a certain level and/or having education at a certain level has to be quite intelligent (In term of IQ) to compensate for the ASD (and ADHD and other issues).

The stereotype of trains and computers makes us seem smart to most people (because what do most people actually know about AS?) Also, not being well adjusted socially certainly helps, because society breeds stupidity, and not being a part of that is a good thing.

not being well adjusted socially

Summarized, the person with wide associative horizon is primarily living one's own mind, not letting one's mental state be determined or strongly affected by others. This is not a choice but a personality feature outside of one's control. Such a person may be seen as unusual, isolated, original, bizarre, detached from emotion, cold.

The most recent insight as to the cause of having a wide associative horizon concerns the intellect trying to make sense of the world in the absence of mammalian instincts like empathy and "nonverbal communication" (facial expression, intonation, and body language). This is what one sees in Aspergoid, schizoid, autistic, or some premorbid schizophrenic persons. Such a condition widens associative horizon, while also increasing and advancing awareness. It is as if the intellect can operate much more freely when not held back by the ancient mammalian biases of instinct. The level of intelligence and the depth of the disturbance of instinct both play a role in determining the width of associative horizon. It is a synergistic interaction; Intelligence combined with the defect of instinct first causes associative horizon to be wide, and then intelligence and associative horizon both contribute to creativity (together with conscientiousness).

intelligence can be measured on not saying anything either. so someone can be very intelligent and someone wouldn't even know it.