Telling professors

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I'm just wondering how many of you have told your professors you have AS. I haven't really told any of mine, though I once had an assignment to write a (brief) autobiography and mentioned it there. Today I was talking to one of my professors about the research paper I'm going to do and he mentioned that he'd like for me to speak in class more because he thinks I'm smart. He was wondering why I don't speak in class more and I struggled to answer, eventually agreeing when he suggested I'm "shy" (duh). I wonder if it might have been a good idea to mention my diagnosis, but I really wasn't sure. My AS is pretty mild and I just wasn't sure whether I was comfortable talking about it with a professor. What do you guys think?

unfortunately to be understood - we have to educate and raise awareness ourselves in many situations...

I always think if still at school/college/university if you can do a speech and help the other students understand... and generally the schools will back and support you to do this, back not always the case sadly.

I wouldn't tell my professor. Frankly, while more likely than not, most professors would be supportive, I think that enough would not be that I'd keep it to myself unless it became an issue. For once you tell someone in authority--be it a supervisor or a professor--you are going to forever viewed through the lens of having AS. And that might not help you.

I have told my professors that I have AS and they have been really helpful to me. One of my professors is my writing mentor now which is good.

I think you have a really cool professor who is trying to be helpfull! You should take his advice! You have to put yourself in situtations where you are forced to come out of your shell, otherwise you will remain trapped in it! I find it easier to talk about things that I have concrete knowledge of, so if you are confident about your knowledge on a topic, it might be easier to talk about it than you think. Don't overthink it or you'll build up anxiety...do it...do it

Never told a prof I had AS, but I gave 1 prof a sheet of paper from the department saying I had a disability and should get extra time on assignments.

seeing as i discovered about AS (and myself) whilst in a neuro program...... i told my advisor and some other profs that i worked with... and they said they weren't that surprised!

i think it helped me mainly in that my advisor sat down and told my postdoc overloard (lol) about it... cause he's 1) foreign and 2) not savvy about any of that stuff... it really helped cause the postdoc i worked with would sometimes get really frustrated (with me) and always think it was his fault for not knowing english or something.... he would bonk me on the head over silly but persistant miscommunications...

I'm currently suspended from University for having AS diagnosed. That is strange, given that I've never been smacked or detentioned before.
I don't think my University has a clue how to handle the situation.
My Director of Undergraduate studies refuses to apologise for the incompetant way he dealt with me prior to the diagnosis being made.

nice
i am planning on doing the same thing in a few days
i made it through college almost without telling anybody

but
i have to because this class i have is no test, just these really difficult assignments
very analytical
(anybody else find analysis difficult, like it's hard to communicate stuff you know?)

so, i've been watching seemingly dumb people get A's
people talk about how they got everything wrong and are getting A's
people say they are doing them 10mins before class and getting A's

i keep getting D's and C's
but when he goes over the answers to me I had it right but today it just had question marks even though it was how do you interpret this data....how can that even be wrong
i'm putting in a lot of time which is rare and i scrible like 30 to 40 pages of notes when i do them but they all boil down to a few sentences
part of me is just insanely cynical and i think the prof. just hates me
i'm beyond frustrated now since i listen to these people all day talk about their lack of effort and getting all answers wrong and get A's
i really am on the wrong planet now

so, i have to somehow communicate about how i can't communicate well
i know i'll be insanely nervous and i hope that doesn't interfere with saying whatever i need to say
but for once i think i see it's something i should do in person

last week i got 50% of another class for calculating my answers in my own yet much more logical way
i explain it and the teacher said i didnt understand it etc.
so i wrote her a proof and she wont respond
professors are dumb and illogical
i'm not impressed by their society positions
if i could talk in front of people even i could do it better

damn
i completely stole your topic with my own nonsense
sorry bout that