Aspie IQ

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Obviously, I never saw (nor heard of) this program. I consider myself fortunate to be in "average" range (albeit the low end). As mentioned, IQ results are often skewed (to the high end) and, as mentioned, IQ tests can be taught and/or memorized. There was a good Law and Order: Criminal Intent episode concerning such.

I'm 13 and my IQ is about 131

IQ is an outdated scoring system.. The truth of the matter is, anyone can have any intelligence, they just need the correct focus for it.. It can be trained.. Like some people that know how to throw a baseball there first time, some people know how to 'learn' their first time

Read "Mind Magic" for further information.. The key to learning is like anything else - you must learn how to learn.. Believe me, it makes things super easy.. If you've ever picked something up and just felt natural with it, you subconsciously knew how to learn it..

I only got a 107 on the Raven's Progressive Matrices imitation test at http://iqtest.dk/main.swf; I was getting pretty bored about half way through, not really in an effortful mood today. I also tend to do better at verbal IQ tests.

If I understand, all Aspies ARE GIFTED ?
Someone ungifted may not be really an Aspie ??

Special interests and skills together with social inability is what really makes an aspie. A totally mediocre character cannot possibly be an aspie, that's correct.

Well, it depends on what you mean by "gifted".

By definition, all Aspies have normal or higher IQs.

Also by definition, the majority of Aspies have special interests--subjects they are fascinated with.

A person with a normal or greater IQ who is fascinated with a certain subject will almost invariably become an expert at an unusually young age; thus, "gifted"--for example, at age 14 I could explain the theory of relativity, thanks to my special interest in astronomy. However, if my special interest had been, say, Disney animated movies, I might have seemed less "gifted" despite having memorized the dialogue, actors, history, method of animation, directors, musical scores, etc. for those movies. It really depends on what the interest is, and how "smart" it makes the Aspie look.

Aspies are also prone to savant talents like perfect pitch (the ability to identify a note by letter, upon hearing it; also to produce that same note if given the letter), mental calculation, and camera-like memory.

In general, the AS mind does not pick up and use the same patterns of thinking that the typical mind uses. This results in a lot of original, creative thought and, often, an aptitude for problem-solving. Whether this is seen as a "gift" or just "eccentricity" depends on exactly what sort of original thought the Aspie comes up with. This same mechanism can produce a weird sense of humor... or an ingenious engineer!

Probably, Aspies are seen as "gifted" just because we are good at things the NTs aren't good at, and bad at things NTs tend to excel in. But if the world were made mostly of Aspies instead of NTs, then the few NTs would be seen as "gifted" for being able to read each others' minds so easily, and it would be totally run-of-the-mill to be an expert on, say, cereal boxes, child psychology, Java, or the history of champagne...

At iqtest.com, it said my IQ was 132. Not bad for a seventeen-year-old!

I score low on IQ tests because they are bunch of abstract questions.

No, Aspies can be of normal OR above normal intelligence. If you just have normal intelligence, you can still be an aspie.

I got 99.

I'm sure the poster was just reffering to the sterio type truck aimer and after over a decade of driving a truck myself, I think the typical truck driver is a moron. that don't maen everyone who chooses to drive a truck is a moron.

Somebodies level of education or job shouldn't be used to determine if they got a high level of intelligance. Total morons manage to graduate some of the nations top universities and other people who are real smart where never given a chance at attending a university and end up with really lame jobs.

I think she meant someone who scored above 130 or somehow arbitrary number for intellectual giftedness or the ability to do well academically. Even for intellectual giftedness, for people with Asperger's syndrome, that is a tricky question because our profiles of intellectual ability tend to have extreme peaks and valleys. When I was 18, I took the WAIS-III and got a full-scale IQ of 116 with a verbal IQ of 134 (definitely gifted in that area) but a performance (i.e., visual-spatial) IQ of only 94, which is below average. The subscores showed a bit more unevenness, particularly in the performance IQ area.

My verbal IQ is 200 but I just speak Swedish, English and German fluently, can speak with Norwegians and Danes and understand most of what they say (especially the Norwegians), but so can most Swedes; I read and understand Dutch and middle age German, but can't speak it properly, and some Latin and Greek, but thats all.

I wish I could at least speak French, Italian and Spanish.

I took a test with a psychologist and I scored 153 in verbal, and - be amused- 153 in performance. Identical IQs!!!---> I don't know what test was it, though, so I don't know exactly what does that score mean, but it must be good. I think. And I took the Tickle! your brain test (yeah, the banner that appears here) and I scored 131. But again, english is not my first language...

They explained to me that IQ measures how gifted you are, but "genius" is a very different thing: genius is a person who can use his or her intelligence extremely well, and has a unique creativity and stuff. That means, you can have an IQ of 280 (which is like the highest IQ a person has and belongs to a girl that answers questions in a magazine) and just do like the lady: answer questions in a magazine, nothing special, nothing that requires creativity and the use of that precious ability; or also you can have a very average IQ, or even a low IQ, but use it so well that you can be considered a genius (like real singers/composers, inventors, and yeah, also that kid with Down syndrome who paints beautifully or is an excellent actor... and yeah, Michael Jordan too..).

The thing is that people and the media tend to concentrate on people who are both gifted and geniuses, like da Vinci, Einstein, etc... and specially if they are geniuses in scientific stuff, but there are a least seven intelligences in which one can be gifted or/and genius, and are often underrated.

iqtest.com says 136
http://iqtest.dk says 126
tickle test is 136

Hmm.
I took some official test in school when I was 17, and I got 154.
Doesn't really mean anything, but these tests can be fun to take.