Aspies:Is college a lot easier than high school?

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That seems to be what I've read. Like the benefits of high school- adult maturity, tolerance of diversity, celebration of intense interest- are increased in university.

Like you could play Pokemon (lol I'm on the library computer doing this right now and I feel like such a d!ck doing it) and everyone would know about it, no one would care, and chances are if your friends are majoring with you, they're probably into it.

Am i right or am i right?

you are right. That is because you were either right or right, so I chose right

dick is not censored, and I do not understand why you feel like one for I don't know what reason.

College is much better. The school work is easier IF you keep up with it. If you do not keep up with the school work, or do not study it is a LOT harder.

I've been thinking about teaching creative writing. I wouldn't do it in HS because teenagers already know everything and their constant challenging of what I've lerned over the years would just give me a stroke. I'd prefer to teach in college because the kids are more mature and there's less horse playing in class.

I totally fell apart in college. I had no idea how to function living on my own, and even though I had no friends in high school, I was at least familiar with who my classmates were, versus college, with 500 student lecture classes that overwhelmed me. No one ever talked to me, only to other people, and I didn't know what to say to a perfect stranger, myself. High school was the ideal environment for me, with it's combination of the structured home life, classes at the same time every day, etc, and extracurriculars I pursued according to interests. College was just overwhelming. I'm on academic suspension from my university because the stress of it all got to me and I stopped going. I'm doing slightly better at a community college, but still, nothing compares to high school. I have no study skills because I grew up getting straight A's without trying, but it's difficult to do that in college.

high school for a high school student is about the same difficulty as college for a college student.

except the difficulty is in different areas.

with high school, it's more social difficulty (which in college gets better).

in college, it's moreso responsibility and organization that are the problem.

In my experience, college is harder because it's more abstract and the work is harder too. Also in art class, they don't tell you what work to make and I have a hard time figuring out what work to do and I need structure. In high school, the teacher would give the whole class an assignment about what to make and that helps me because I have structure. But college doesn't have that.

It depends on the course, and the age group. If it's a sixth-form college (16-19) then the students will be more mature than high school, but there'll still be 4-5 "kids" in your class. If it's a 19+ age course, then the students are a lot more mature, and generally don't bother you.

As for the course itself, if it's a low level, then it may attract immature people too. If you're going to do A-levels or whatever is above GCSE level then you should be fine.

As for meeting people, I met one in the support section and he introduced me to his college friends. We're not in touch anymore.

I recommend against working at home - you need to build up your social skills. If you say you can't do that cos of AS - look up books on how to talk to people, body language etc. And question every social interaction objectively, or it'll make you paranoid. When you do that, you automatically start learning how to deal with people, slowly, but surely.

Schoolwork in college was much easier for me, I'm not sure why.

Meeting people and making friends was still as hard as it was in high school. I never could find any clubs I was interested in, I just always hung out with the same couple of people in my dorm.