Aspies For Freedom

You can study for an IQ test.. The questions are very similar. The only beauty in the IQ test for me was pointing out inadequacies. I scored very well in most areas, but sometimes failed hard on tests requiring very little intelligence. Like.. (Verbal Reverse the order of these letters: MNDPQ.

After my formal IQ test, I happened by my best friend's mother who specialized in autism diagnosis. One morning she started doing her voodoo on me and she found some tests that apparently should be very easy for someone of my intelligence, but they were impossible to me. I still wonder what she was thinking. Did she start, thinking I was NT, to see a baseline of which tests were NT do-able? Or did she suspect something first? Hmmmmmmm. I also wonder which test those little problems belonged to, because my IQ test started that interaction.

There a many ways people can be intelligent. I don't know if a test can be a good way of detecting the overall intelligence of a person. I've gotten different scores every time I've taken them.

IQ relates to both Genetics and Aquired intellect. In short, its a combo of the two.