It may be delusional or it may not. Online IQ and Wonderlic test makers collude with each other to suggest your IQ falls within a narrow range. The aim being to 'legitimise ’ their tests.
That may be true. Or you just end up in relatively close IQ because the tests are fairly accurate
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I think your current predicament comes less from delusion and more from obsession. You’re obsessed with these idiotic IQ tests that only measure very specific areas of intelligence. They’re glorified video games. Like with this Wonderlic business. Why does it matter? Why do you even care? For better or for worse, your scores on these tests say absolutely nothing about your intelligence.
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It probably goes with the Asperger’s. It could be much worse , I could be into the worst serial killers of all time,and obsessed with posting graphic details of such.
Bottom line - I’m not harming anyone.
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Some people said that “but people with sz have low IQ and you have a normal IQ”
I was so so confused. What kind of misinformation do they have? 
I wouldn’t put any energy into these IQ tests. Even the official ones are bias and don’t measure each quotient, as much as they claim to.
@anon10648258 Most people who post here are more likely to have a learning disability (US terminology) than a low IQ.
I see- there are so many false assumptions about our condition. It’s so frustrating.
Why are they doctors and Olympic athletes. I know what i know. I never done an iq test. I do what i can do with ease. I do simple easy things. Why should i stress The only thing you get are wrinkles.
I’ve always scored average on IQ tests. However, any creative tests I have taken, I’m off the charts…so go figure. Perhaps my affliction gives me the edge in the ‘thinking outside of the box’ category.
Yeah, except for yourself. You’re constantly analyzing these test results in what seems like an effort to prove to yourself that you’re not an idiot. Well, you’re not. You’re highly intelligent, brilliant, even. You have a knack for research and data analysis, and you use both of these skills to come to unique conclusions. Not many people can do that. I know I can’t. Just because you’re not one of those people with autism that acts as a human calculator or has a perfect memory doesn’t mean you didn’t get any of the giftedness that often comes with Asperger’s. I can see that you did. We all can.
I’m not perfect. Perhaps you truly enjoy taking these online tests and discussing them, and I’m reading the situation incorrectly, but if not, please stop torturing yourself over it. You’re good, really.
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It’s more to do with a mix of having an uneven cognitive profile(which is fairly typical of Asperger’s) and a somewhat fragile sense of self worth. If I was uniformly very intelligent,intelligent, average etc, as most people are, then there’d be less room for uncertainty.
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Why do you think that most people are uniformly intelligent? They aren’t. Even long before psychosis, I had poor social awareness, poor reading comprehension, and poor abstract thinking skills. Sure, there may be people who don’t have any of these deficits, but I’ve never met any of them.
Most people have a PIQ-VIQ/ VIQ-PIQ gap of 10 or less. Yes, there are those of us with a greater gap but we are the exception rather than the rule.
Psychometric tests which produce an intelligence quotient (IQ) are constructed such that, theoretically, the population mean IQ is 100, with a standard deviation of 15 (Weschler, 1992). The expected population mean of both verbal (VIQ) and performance (PIQ) sub-tests is also 100, hence the expected discrepancy between sub-tests in a large enough, normal, population is zero.
Whereas an individual discrepancy of 9 ( p < 0.05 ) to 12 ( p < 0.01 ) is statistically significant, an individual discrepancy is not usually considered clinically significant unless it is greater than 15 (Weschler, 1981; Kaufman, 1990).
Do you think you spend a lot of time trying to prove you’re intelligent? If so to who? Yourself or others? You are and you have nothing to prove to anyone.
The worst thing is people who are unable to grasp that you have marked areas of cognitive strengths and weaknesses. It’s presumed, even by many MH professionals, that if you are verbally very intelligent and yet are struggling with something it’s because you are ,defiant, lazy, obstructive,passive aggressive etc.
Another issue for many of us on the autistic spectrum is the gap between IQ and adaptive functioning.
This forum plays to my strengths , but I’d be up the creek without a paddle if left completely to my own devices when it comes to day to day functioning.
You are very practical on the computer. For example I don’t know how to upload articles or videos.
I played around with it but put it in to hard basket. I usually good at selfteaching. All the computer skills are mainly self taught. In the late 80s I visit a Computercourse. With the right mentors you can learn almost everything.
What I can do on a computer is very much self learnt. I’ve never attended a course. I’m fairly competent, but no computer genius.
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Did you considered online university?