Var en som länkade till detta i en facebookgrupp för asperger "There is a notion that Asperger syndrome is related to high intelligence. A few things must be said about this:
Because of the convention to give this diagnosis only to who are not mentally handicapped, the average I.Q. of people with Asperger is artificially elevated compared to that of the rest of the population, which does include the mentally handicapped. But this means not that persons with Asperger are highly intelligent per se; just that their I.Q.'s are mostly over 70.
Asperger is thought to be related to genius, and this makes people think of high intelligence. However, the relation with genius — which is real according to me — does not lie in the supposed high intelligence of those with Asperger, but in their conscientiousness and associative horizon, both of which are important components of genius next to intelligence.
Actually, within the group of individuals with Asperger, those with high intelligence are a minority (just as they are in the general population) and in the group of highly intelligent persons, those with Asperger are a minority (just as they are in the general population).
My own work with high-range intelligence tests has shown even more; that in the high range of intelligence there is a negative correlation between I.Q. and Asperger. In other words, those with Asperger are less intelligent. More recently I have also begun to suspect this may be different for females; in females, Asperger may not have this limiting (reducing) effect on intelligence, and it may even be that females with Asperger are more intelligent than other females. But that is still a hypothesis. In any case, the matter with females does not change the overall picture much, as females are a minority both among individuals with Asperger and among the highly intelligent."
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