Accommodations vs. Achievement

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I'm allowed many accommodations (really for medical stuff, my AS has only recently been diagnosed) but I don't use them often. I take advantage of me being allowed excessive absences and I have used the private testing rooms once. I did take advantage of accommodations in high school, though. (I didn't have an IEP in place, it was just an accommodating school and they liked me a lot.) As for achievement, I guess I've done well...I had a 3.8 GPA in high school and I'm in the honors society at my jr. college. Oh, I did take advantage of accommodations on the ACT which improved my score a few points...I forgot about that.

Some AS people who get diagnosed earlier academically struggle, a majority have a learning disability. I guess the ones with Learning Disability are more easier targets for bullies, the ones who can don't have a Learning Disability are less targets for bullying. Most people who are AS and Learning Disabled are more prone to bullying and being more depressed then AS people who don't have learning disability. In order to succeed in school, you need to know how you learn, how you can work through your learing style, how to get organized, how to manage your time, know what is first to do. School, especially college, is very demanding and you need to figure out what you are capable of doing, just start taking a smaller workload, start building up as the time passes by, and learn how to handle the small amount first. If you can handle the smaller amounts, build up to more. If you still struggle will the small amounts with organizing your time, or if you spend too much time on assignments, maybe you should stick with the same load of classes for a few semesters until you can get things done more quickly and not get overwhelmed. These are just my words of advice.

I have never received any accommodations (I'm undiagnosed) and I do very well in school. My only real difficulties lie in class discussions and presentations. Unfortunately, I go to a small college and class sizes tend to be small, so there is a lot of class discussion, and it often comprises a large portion of your grade for the class...