Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Twice Exceptional Misleading IQ scores

Hello everyone,

I am new here. I am glad to find a place where issues such as intelligence, giftedness, and the problems and benefits that come with them are discussed.

I am a person with high-functioning autism (Asperger's). I was only recently diagnosed. I also recently took an IQ test.

I took the WAIS IV and got 130 in the Verbal, average in the PIQ, and below average in the processing speed portion. My psychologist seems to think that if it weren't for my slow cognitive processing that my intelligence would have showed more clearly on the test.

All the same, I'm mildly disappointed. I skipped a LOT of grades as a child - I tested into 4th grade reading in 1st grade, by 4th grade was reading 8th grade level, and by 6th-7th grade was reading college level books. I was home-schooled. I also skipped 4 grades of math in total, while not being taught a lot of math while being home-schooled.

I have wanted to join a high-IQ society for a long time, however, my IQ isn't well represented, and really cannot be well represented, because of my autism and sensory processing issues causing slow cognition. My questions are simply these:

How does one deal with the fact that their intelligence cannot be accurately assessed because of being twice-exceptional?

And:

Are there any high IQ societies that would allow for the possibility of an under-rated IQ due to these issues?

Welcome! I can't answser your questions but I'm sure someone else will chime in.

Don't worry about it?

Is there some other problem here other than the High-IQ society issue?

As far as I know, there are no high IQ societies where you'd meet people of the sort you want and that allow for exceptions to their admission requirements. However, a lot of high IQ societies like Mensa will take IQ proxy tests such as older versions of the SAT (if you took it a long time ago) b/c they aligned well with IQ. You could also just go the route of taking the Mensa admission test and see if you make it on that.

Not that Mensa is the only high IQ society, but they are one of the larger ones and, thus, more likely to have active groups in most areas. They are also offering their home test for free in January, which would give you an idea as to whether you'd pass the "real" entry test. https://www.us.mensa.org/join/mht/?utm_source&utm_medium&utm_campaign

Do any of them take Raven's Progressive Matrices? That might be right up your alley.

I took the home Mensa test before I took the proctored one. I unplugged my phone and set a timer - I wanted no interruptions and results as accurate as possible.

After you take the test, you mail it back to them for marking. They then send you a letter with your score and whether or not that score would have qualified you for membership if the test had been supervised.