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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]9:20 I agree with everything you said except I have to gently disagree with your statement that the ability to perform academically is a main asset.  While this is true for many of our kids it isn't true for all of them.  There is a myth out there that the hallmark of AS is brilliance and that isn't always true.  There are plenty of children who do not have sky high IQs (though the diagnosis is ruled out if they have an intellectual disability).  And there are also many who are perfectly bright even exceptionally bright, but who have a lot of trouble performing academically either because of LD issues, or because they can't make the leap to abstract thinking that comes in the high elementary years (very common for kids with AS) or because of co-morbid ADHD and executive function issues, planning issues.

We probably don't disagree on this and I do agree with everything else you wrote.[/quote]

Executive function issues are a problem.     All the people with AS we have met have major intellectual strengths [and deficits] if channeled into an area of interest.      So I guess that is an ability to perform academically- ability to hyperfocus.

Abstract v concrete thinking is shown on an example in Wrong Planet  [site my DC with AS told me about].   "Take apart your computer"   meaning with a screwdriver v reading the manual.

medicine.yale.edu/childstudy/autism/.../asdiagnosis_tcm339-34860.pdf

Article from Yale on iq /add/executive function:
http://opac.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6698

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