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Intelligence fears

Pennie_Jane

I seem to be obsessed with my intelligence, or lack thereof. 

Is this an autism thing? 

I'm not stupid, I can:

  • Turn my hand to most practical things
  • Build Ikea furniture with relative ease
  • Use a computer and all the MS products with proficiency, which many of my colleagues can't. 

But I convince myself that I am stupid. 

Much of it, I think, comes down to understanding social situations and I find when I watch social media posts that I don't grasp well what people are going on about, whether it be in writing or verbally.  The latter issue is what makes me feel hugely flawed. 

Anyone?

  • Social situations are often very challenging for autistic people but I would suggest that social media is not a great benchmark for you to measure yourself against.

    It has enabled a dumbing down of people's communication skills - any thought that pops into someone's head can be online for the world to see within seconds whether it's true or false, smart or stupid, worthwhile or worthless.

    Neurodiverse people often already struggle with navigating and interpreting neurotypical conversation and I personally feel like social media has made that task much more difficult for us.

  • have you ever had an IQ test? mine was measured at 123. My social skills were very deficient growing up and to some extent still are. Intelligence and understanding of social situations are 2 completely different things. Maybe you should get your IQ measured professionally. It's a very imperfect proxy for intelligence which is itself a hard thing to define. But its a lot better than judging it based off your social skills.