Lab Groups?

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Does anyone here have issues working in a lab group or in a group in general? I have trouble because I like to analyze and work slowly and double check myself. If you have this problem, how do you keep from letting it ruin your college experience?

I do work bad in group thing is my major of math econ does not have much working in groups involved so I don't have many solutions. Only really had to work in groups in GE classes and then did a lot of the work becuase it was easy.

For me it depends on the group, lab I would prefer to work alone because I feel like I get more out of it having to do every step. Also I'm just not good at working with people I am not friends with. I work well in the Tech Crew for the theater at my school, but that's basically my entire friend group and I think most of them are on the Spectrum, I have generally gotten along with the ND better than the NT's. But as I said it depends on what needs to be done and what is supposed to be achieved, like learning vs a job.

Thanks for sharing. It does depend on the group sometimes for me too. I am taking Spanish this semester and we have to form groups and answer questions over what the teacher lectured over five minutes beforehand. It is like that being picked last in gym class feeling. Then I get nervous and have to take extra time to answer the questions right and my partner treats me like I'm stupid. It seems like a lot of college kids just don't want to be there and learn, they just want to rush through and get done as quickly as possible, whether it is right or not. Half these students in my class had Spanish in High School and this is my first year so it's even worse. I wanted to ask the Professor why we weren't learning Spanish with the ESL (English as a second language) students (with them learning English at the same time), but I assumed somebody would probably complain.

If anyone has anything to add, please do so. I want to major in Chemistry but am really nervous about the whole lab group thing if I'm having trouble in my group in Spanish. What are Chemistry students usually like?

LonerMutant,

See, I don't like that group-oriented learning is running off good students from colleges and high school. Aspies should be the students going to college, we work hard, we can focus, we are good in particular subject areas. We shouldn't be the ones being run off so the socialites can pursue their degrees that 40% of them will never use and wont end up paying back.

I think about this while in my program and figure that is just what a Degree means and why it's not easy to attain. I readily accept the technical stuff that I'm there for, but I also have to swallow the communication stuff like a bitter pill.

Yet, that is was Associates Degree tells people; that I've passed courses in my computer subjects as well as communication.

Usually I just focus and do all the work, while they spend more time complaining about how "bad at math" or "bad at science" they are. If they just used that energy for problem-solving maybe I wouldn't mind groups so much. I generally work alone, so group-work frustrates me. I usually do all the work, try to explain it to my group, they give up, I give them the answers, blah, blah, blah

Same problem here. Working in a group distracts me and I spend more time trying to ignore people's conversations than I do working.
It always brings my work level down, even when I end up being the only one doing work.