Any AS people here who enjoyed school?

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Temple Grandin has mentioned her inability to do algebra as well because it's too abstract for her and she can't make a image in her head.

Thats one thing I like about Calculus: most of the numbers are nice and small, and I figured out how to visualize functions and how to visualize most mathematical objects as nice and fluid functions. I prefer functions to numbers, and calculus focuses on functions, not numbers. I have a reputation of being the uber math genius, but I still make a ton of minor mistakes while making calculations and manipulating expressions. Everything is perfect in my head, the mistakes come from accidentally writing down the wrong thing, but I usually catch these mistakes pretty quickly, and if I don't catch them immediately I catch them when things stop making sense, or if it's a multiple choice question when what I got isn't one of the choices. I'm writing my own little mathematical theory right now, but I feel it's somewhat abstract, expecially for something created by an Aspie.

I've always been fascinated with biology, particullary the human body. Before my dad had a career change and became....(I'm not sure if it's a minor security threat to say what he is, I may have already said too much already) he was the director of education at a "health museum" (for a period of his career he taught sex Ed at random schools, and I know he once gave a presentation at a school for people with AS, I've always been in the mainstream with only special classes added on top of it) and I've been looking at pictures of the human viscera since I was a small child. I know more about biology than the people who actually took Biology as a class, it really disappointed me when I couldn't take the class due to scheduling problems and I had to take Enviro. Biology, which does not interest me in the slightest.

I enjoyed it somewhat. My homelife wasn't good so I was happy for some piece. Early one I accedently knock a bully down a flight of stairs. I didnt get messes with after that.
I think im as well adjusted as i am is becuase i ran towords the outside world for a sactuary insead of home. Issues canceling out

I hated school because it interfered with my reading. Plus while I didn't get bullied much (because I fought back), periodically I'd do something that would make everyone just kind of draw back from me, where I knew I'd violated some social norm again and would have to figure out what it was so I could stop doing it, which was a pain.

And school always seemed so pointless. My grades were kind of dismal up until I was somewhere between nine and eleven and found a collection of my father's old report cards -- when I discovered he actually got the kind of grades he expected me to get (mostly A's). Up until then I'd been convinced the whole grade thing was just this twisted, meaningless grade game the school people and my dad colluded on so dad could have another reason to get mad at me. Grades never seemed to measure anything meaningful -- school was supposed to be about teaching you stuff, but I'd get terrific grades in classes where I'd learned nothing, and awful grades in classes where I'd learned a lot. So when I saw my dad wasn't a total hypocrite I started making an effort and my grades went up. They were never good enough to satisfy my dad but I did pretty well on paper. But I still thought school was pointless and being forced to spend my days doing something so meaningless was profoundly depressing.

I've tested with a 131 iq and in sixth grade they started putting me in special ed classes and after sixth grade they put me in a special class where I would just stay in the same room all day.

I think it was because I didn't do much schoolwork and I was unable to get along with the other kids.

I hated it so much. I was counting down the days until I could turn 16 and quit since early grade school.

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Hated grade school and my first HS, but I loved my 2nd HS. It was so big, offered so many great classes! My Sr year, I took theater, choir, improv drama, and college level courses in english, physics, history and economics. Basically all electives, I was in class 7am to 4pm and did extra-curriculars afterwards. Lots of things to do.

Hated college though, it seemed remedial after my last HS year.

Never had patience for "relearning" what I already knew. Never was good at just walking the line for no reason.

Hated the grammar school, but loved the infants' school and (to a lesser extent) the primary school. This was back in the 1950s-1960s when things were rather more prim and proper than they are now. None of this modern open-plan rubbish. Work was explained clearly, we were given silence to work in, and Dad had taught me my letters and numbers before I went to school, so I was at a huge advantage. Academic performance was everything in those days - we were really judged on it as people. No bullies - we were too closely watched, and there was zero tolerance on disruptive behaviour. No testing of social performance, no group projects....we were all about the individual and what they could do alone. What a day - walk in, confidently achieve some targets while others struggled with them, receive pat on head and gold star stuck in work book, go home.

Admittedly I didn't like the times I was in trouble...the teachers were quite fierce when they were angry....but I didn't feel unfairly treated, I did some fairly disruptive things on impulse from time to time.

Elementary = Awful, I was bullied and taunted nonstop. Middle school= alright although I was a raging a**hole. High School first 2 years = home school, boring. High School last two years = Awful, but not because of bullying or anything. I was top of my class, everyone liked me and knew of me, but I was thinking about how awful our education system is and it peed me off to no end so I was not happy going to school but while I was there it was pretty good.

Nope. I never enjoyed school. There might have been a few courses I liked but rarely. I had problems all the time: being bullied in grammar school, then problems with teachers authority and refusal to do assignments or entire courses I didn't like in high school in college. Even when I returned to college in my early 30s I has these types of issues.

I loved elementary school up until grade 4, and I loved college too. I just got off on learning! Middle school and high school were not fun cuz of the social politics.

I love learning, but I hate school, as I don't learn a lot in it for the time I spend in it because I learn too fast (or I already know everything from either studies independent of school or from previous years) and too much time in school is spent doing review, and the whole social aspect takes up time. Also school pushes conformity and kills indepedent thinking. I learn a lot more out if school than in school

You are right, but I just enjoyed the fact that a lot of my classes kickstarted special interests for me. So I could learn more about those in my free time.

Beside reading documentary books and loving learning I never get to that point, with a few exceptions... How could you have learned that much! Wish I had your brain.

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I don't remember having any opinion of school in the first 8 years. It was just somewhere I went, no choices... I hadn't really worked out that I was a person with choices.

I enjoyed high school because I really enjoyed the learning and because of a few teachers who made me feel the most understood that I had ever felt. They could see that I was isolated and overwhelmed and they took time to connect with me. I didn't have this at all at home, so I looked forward to going to school to feel not so alone with my struggles. Plus, because it was my routine, I found weekends and holidays very unsettling, I would have much preferred to go to school every day