IQ vs EQ

IQ to some people is the most important way of separating competent people from incompetent people.  This is a fallacy.  IQ was though to be immutable, what ever your score is is what it will always be.  This is false.  I have improved my IQ, a friend life was scarred by one IQ score and saved a few years later by a different IQ.  IQ is affected by a number of different things: your culture, what you read, the country you live in and other things.  IQ does not mean you are an overall genius, IQ only measures math skills, language skills and spatial skills.  It does not measure musical skill, nature skills, physical skills like knowing how to do things, it does not measure how you work with others or how you work on your own.  True genius comes from excellence in all areas and IQ scores do not measure this.  

EQ is hard to measure.  It embodies your ability to communicate with others and your ability to deal with life.  Your ability to relate to others.  It is your ability survive amongst others.  It is a measure of your emotional ability, Emotional Quotient, EQ.

I would say that having a high IQ is only good if you can navigate through society to gain the benefits.  Having a high EQ means that whatever your IQ, you can navigate the world to the maximum of your ability.  

AS and all Autistic Spectrum Disorders, suffer from low EQ.  AS people have moderate to high IQ.  It is the awareness, even if it is unconscious, that their EQ is deficient, that gives them stress and depression.  Those, like me who are exceptionally intelligent and introverted, clue into this fact much earlier.  I know that I will never get married, that having children is extremely unlikely, that getting through an interview for a serious job is an uphill battle.  If you have not had a serious job interview, let me tell you, it is not you and the boss anymore, it is you the recruiter, the boss, and the person that you will be working for directly, all three.  I am a teacher, I have the qualifications, I think, I know I will be an excellent teacher, but I have to get through an interview with three principals before that will ever happen.  You need a normal to high EQ to do that.  My EQ, using IQ as a model, is about 40-50, making me an idiot in that fashion.  I have the social confidence of a 16-20 year old.  I am witty when I am one on one, I can dish it out better than most but put me in a situation that is alien, with three people that i don't know well, watch me fold.  It is not just folding, it is foot in mouth disease.  I say the wrong things at the wrong time.  People look at me, they see my as a competent individual, but then I say or do something that just does not fit and they are flabbergasted.  

It is not that I really understand it either.  There are things that really confuse me about language, some basic idioms like "next weekend". I have to ask is that this weekend coming up or the one after it?  I am Mr. Literal.  "Rainchecks" means: I can't do it now but we will do it later, but I am convinced that it does not mean that at all, it really means: never again, you missed out.  If I had a choice I would suffer a one for one exchange IQ for EQ, with no hesitation.  Forty points for forty points will make me average and happy, I think.