[matt000999]

What is the best way to figure out your Iq if your an Aspie when I was being diagnosed I scored a low iq fsiq of 81 but was noted I could have higher score that sore could be affected by depression which I have frequently I know im not a genius by any means but I always thought I had at least above average IQ I only had 2.4 grade average in school but I was never really interested in school so I didnt try that hard at it anyway opinions on how to figure it out and what you think would be helpful.

[divine1966]

Psychological evaluation by psychologist. Are you in school? If not, are you receiving vocational services? Seeing a doctor? You can’t ask them if you would qualify for free evaluation. Otherwise you’d need to pay.

Average IQ is between 85 to 115 (one standards deviation above and below 100). You think you have above 115?

I agree and know from professional stand point that IQ score can fluctuate due to mental state of a person and certainly ASD might effect it. So it’s possible

[daynrand]

Originally Posted by matt000999

I know im not a genius by any means but I always thought I had at least above average IQ I only had 2.4 grade average in school but I was never really interested in school so I didnt try that hard at it.

Hey, you never know. You very-well might be an "IQ genius"! I scraped by through school with Cs, too. Except for 1 time in 3rd grade, I wanted to see if my parents would respond better if I got straight As. I did, but they didn't seem to even notice. I still have that report card, though.

So, like you, I didn't really care & didn't try in school, other than developing the habit of cramming on the morning of tests just so I wouldn't completely flunk out. And I was called names, including "stupid" & "the dumb one of the family" for so long, I just assumed I must be what they said. Amazingly, at the age of 22, after being part of a "rape victims' group" (in the mid-70s, it was a brave new thing to even have such counseling, at least where I lived.) After a year or so, the (very caring, very awesome, very helpful) psychologist leading the group decided to give us all IQ tests some colleagues of hers had developed at the University of Oregon. Afterward, although all of us scored fairly high, she said that of the hundreds of people who had been given that test, I was the only 1 who ever scored "perfectly", or got 100% of the questions correct. I was more surprised than anyone about that. In fact, I thought it must be a fluke or that somehow I'd lucked out on it.

But a few years later, still wondering about it, as family members continued treating me like an imbecile, I got up the nerve to apply to MENSA. (I know, silly.) I had just read about that group for the 1st time, & figured it wouldn't hurt to try & if I failed miserably, I sure(ly) didn't have to tell anybody about it!

So, guess what? I scored above 160 on their little test, & was sent an invitation to join, after paying a fee for what at that time was a lot of money for us. I told my husband that my 1st act of intelligence was going to be NOT to join MENSA. In the family, I really only felt safe telling my Dad about the test score. But his response was, "Really? I wonder how ____ would score on that?" In other words, my only loving parent still considered my baby sister to be the greatest brain in the family, as had always been the case. At any rate, he seemed unimpressed by my so-called intelligence. I never mentioned it again. But my husband crowed about his "genius wife" a few times. After that, more often than a few times I heard comments like, "If she's so smart, why does she act so stupid?" (The only thing I could ever think to say to that was, "It's an adverb, so it's 'stupidly' not 'stupid'.") Sigh.