Any AS people here who enjoyed school?

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A common factor among AS people I've seen/met (including myself) had a miserable time in school. Only aspect I enjoyed of it was 12th grade, mainly because I spent the entire year high as a kite on various drugs.

Edit: I've also noticed a lot of AS people were in special ed. Why is that, exactly? I was in regular classes, and I thought people with AS were of average intelligence.

Middle school and high school were great because I didn't get bullied and harassed and I got help with my school work so school wasn't as hard anymore. I liked school when I was in preschool because it was all fun and play time and when I was six and seven, I was in special ed full time and all the work was easy and we had lot of field trips. But my mom said I was bored because I already knew how to do the work and they wouldn't give me anything else new to learn. That class held me back in education and I had to do catch up in special ed by doing first grade school work when I was eight and in regular ed.

It was miserable enough having to deal with classmates, but I think the worst part was coming home to my mother.

I was bored. In elementary school, it seemed like I learned everything by osmosis. In third grade, the school met with my parents about letting me skip a grade. My parents refused, probably for nonacademic reasons. I was strange and precocious. Always clumsy. For awhile, I made better friends with boys than girls, but then I found girls who were friendly. Middle school was hell. I'd never learned to study and now I had to. I was bullied but there was sanctuary too (art and music), so I was lucky. High school was a lot better. Somehow my weirdness worked for me.

Undergrad also bored me. I never felt challenged. It was like I was going through the motions. Advisors pushed me toward language arts, saying I had the makings of a writer. I was terribly lonely until I got involved in the local arts scene. Even then, socializing was hard. It was like everyone had already formed solid cliques and membership was by invitation only.

Looking back, I'd have taken a completely different route. I was a kid who didn't get much guidance at home or at school. I guess my direction was assumed, but I barely knew what I wanted or what I was made for.

I hated school. I hated having to get up and go to it. I hated having to go to the classes. The work was always so easy, and if I'd gone every day I'd have gotten straight A's with no problem or studying. I think the problems were that I was a. not challenged academicly (sp?), b. I didn't want to have to deal with people, and c. I have a hard time getting myself to get up and start things, especially on bad days.

I was in special ed because I had a speech delay and developmental delays. Plus I was diagnosed as having autism in my early childhood and then it was autistic behavior and then communication disorder. I was also labeled as being multi handicapped and I scored in the mildly ret*d range.

Then when I was older, it was to do catch up with my education and then it was for me to get help with my school work because the work got too hard for me. I even had meltdowns in class too and part of my IEP was for me to go back to the resource room when I act up. If a normal student acted up in class, they be sent to the office or be given detention but not me.

I have learning difficulties too and I was told that is part of my AS and the work is too abstract for me and I am a concrete thinker. But what baffles me is if aspies are so concrete, then how on earth do they do school work without any work modifications or extra help with it? I have even heard of them going to college and I wonder how on earth do they do it without help? I was even told algebra was concrete but if it's so concrete, then why would I have troubles with it and why couldn't I grasp it? It's abstract. Maybe my last ex was full of it when he said it. My school finally had to dummy down my math because they realized I wasn't grasping it nor learning.

Special ed doesn't always mean for people who have below average IQ's. It can be for people with learning disabilities.

School was mostly s**t but there were some fun times. A bomb scare, an abusing teacher getting fired, all the kids going on a riot one day as a protest, science experiments etc.

So much better than stupid college

The modern school system is one of the stupidest ideas ever conceived. Stuck with a bunch of other kids from different backgrounds with different levels of intelligence and motivation, being taught mostly useless information that will be forgotten in a year.

High school and college were great.
Middle school was worst because it was where I was bullied most.
Elementary school I liked but it depended on the teacher.

As a whole though, I am doing whatever I can do get back into academia, academic situations are things I highly enjoy.

I always hated school, that's why I work at home now.

I have nutrionnal problems, so I didn't have breakfast or lunch.
It was too much noise and too much people. I felt agressed and I was scary all the time.
Due to wrist problems, I couldn't write clearly.
I was "masked" ; I wanted to hide my social phobia, so... I don't know how I can explain that...
And I was slow. At home, I work perfectly, even if it's harder than at school, but at school, I couldn't focus.
Etc...

That's why the other pupils saw me as weird. Because of them, and because of all these disorders, school was impossible for me, and I was about to commit suicide when I stopped to go at school. I'll never return to this anymore, unless if I could without being judged every time etc...

So... I can't say I really enjoyed school.



sMeow.

I was homeschooled for most of my schooling (5th-10th grade), which I'm thankful for.

Elementary school wasn't bad. I went to a private school, and I was accepted by my peers for the most part. I never enjoyed schoolwork, though.

High school and college, so unbelievably stressful for me. I'm still going to give college another try, though.