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Anyone a gifted autistic?

Elaine Yu

Is anyone else here a former child prodigy and at what? I just recently did the AQ50 and AQ10. I'm now on the waiting list for an official assessment. My dad wants to know if it's it the IQ that makes someone gifted or does being someone with Asperger's syndrome make you more likely to be gifted.

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  • To me the expression "gifted" is a loaded one, it likely only means excelling at something that the majority of people find extraordinary. Seeing as autistic people are already removed from the ordinary, if they can apply themselves differently from ordinary people they are performing at an extraordinary level.

    It's also a lot about the company you keep, I used to play "Magic the Gathering". At some point I was in the top ten competitors in the country, but because my play group typically included those in the top 50 I didn't feel that I excelled. It wasn't until I was among more average players that the differences began to show through.

    IQ testing in my opinion is a flawed concept, if you are exposed to the problem sets and style of questioning inherent in IQ tests you will perform well. It's why people that do lots and lots of IQ tests tend to score highly. It's not that they are more intelligent, it's because they are gaming the system.

    I'm likely on the spectrum, but don't have a formal diagnosis, I've jumped on here to find out how I can accelerate the process.

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  • To me the expression "gifted" is a loaded one, it likely only means excelling at something that the majority of people find extraordinary. Seeing as autistic people are already removed from the ordinary, if they can apply themselves differently from ordinary people they are performing at an extraordinary level.

    It's also a lot about the company you keep, I used to play "Magic the Gathering". At some point I was in the top ten competitors in the country, but because my play group typically included those in the top 50 I didn't feel that I excelled. It wasn't until I was among more average players that the differences began to show through.

    IQ testing in my opinion is a flawed concept, if you are exposed to the problem sets and style of questioning inherent in IQ tests you will perform well. It's why people that do lots and lots of IQ tests tend to score highly. It's not that they are more intelligent, it's because they are gaming the system.

    I'm likely on the spectrum, but don't have a formal diagnosis, I've jumped on here to find out how I can accelerate the process.

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