Any solitary learners here?

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I'm exactly the same, i need solitude to study.

I loved the classes in college, lectures and all. So long as I feel confident that I'll be able to understand what is being taught; I'm extremely into it. Much to the annoyance of my peers. I ask a thousand questions, take amazing notes, and thrive on discussions.

I don't do so well with abstract/mathematical material like code and working in 3D max. (but I sure tried)

I love everything about classes except for group work (I do all the work, everyone else does all the 'hanging in a group'. Not my bag.)

I like learning alone - when I was doing Higher English a couple of years back the tutor was very keen on pairing people up to complete tasks and I found that a nightmare, I worked at a different speed from everyone else and the 'teamwork' element was lost as I'd be hareing ahead then sitting bored senseless waiting for others to catch up when I could be doing something constructive on my own.

When I do essays etc at home I do 10 minutes here and there, sitting in front of a question for two hours just doesn't work for me.

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Same with me, especially if the teacher's voice is full of enthusiasm and love for his subject matter. I enjoy lectures if I can fully listen and absorb and not have to bother with note-taking. I absorb more by applying total concentration, which is easy if the lecture is on a subject that I love learning about, but taking notes throws off my concentration. Some teachers expect, even demand that notes be taken during lectures.

I love self study most, though. Because I can visualize what I am reading, and re-read, or go back to things that didn't quite sink in earlier.

I'd do the same. In fact I learned more after leaving school than I ever did being there because I was able to study what I wanted, when I wanted and for as long as I wanted (I hammer through something too, until I reach the end).

Yes I'm a solitary learner......I get very little out of group learning, though one-on-one has sometimes been worth the effort. I seemed to learn OK at my first school, but my father had already taught me my letters and numbers, so there really wasn't much to learn for some time - the teachers loved my good marks and so my confidence would was quite high (the kids were a bit too young to start bullying the smarties), and in those days they had marvellous order in classrooms, same class teacher for 3 years, it was Aspie heaven really. But as time went by the thing gradually descended into something I couldn't understand any more.

So I'm sure group learning can work for an Aspie, but I doubt if I'll ever see such favourable conditions again. If I want to learn, I do most of it alone.

I'm involved in a small music club these days, that's pretty much my only group activity, and even there I have a lot of trouble keeping up with what goes on at the meetings. It's not a formal learning situation of course, but learning is still an important part of the association. As well as the logical decision-making procedure there are a lot of emotional things that seem worth observing, and typically I'll be chewing over what I've noticed in a 90-minute meeting for days, on and off. It's difficult because there's a natural expectation for members to have immediate opinions on everything - for me it's just not that simple. But I end up seeing important things that the others haven't always noticed.......it's strange because long before I was diagnosed I used to feel that I could somehow see emotions in people that weren't apparent to most folks - perhaps my longstanding interest in psychology bears fruit sometimes. It's interesting to observe how groups of people (with practical work to do) will often seem to completely ignore emotional angles, and will rarely listen enough to each other, or ask each other how they feel about anything. Maybe they do know but just react on automatic pilot, and wouldn't want to hear about it in words?

Yup, pretty much the same here.

Me. I hate lectures, and I work better on my own, instead of in groups.

Yeah, that's exactly it! I've realized this about myself too late, though, which is a pity. I could have done so much better at school if I knew this before. That's one of the things that the mainstream school tells you to do when you study that does not work for me at all. I was so fixated on getting high marks in the past that I've researched good study methods, but when I tried to stick to these methods, they just made things worse for me. No wonder!

I'm more of an auditory learner, but at the same time, I need to study alone. I talk to myself when I study, and that's how I learn. Other people are a distraction. I can't listen attentively in class due to distractions, but I love downloading lectures and listening to them on my mp3 player in the quiet comfort of my home. It's very helpful. I also type lots of notes whenever I have to read something for school to help the meaning of the text sink in.

same here.

I get more out of sitting in my booth at work, just thinking up business strategies, thinking about economic history, and reading up on business history on Wikipedia--not to mention other things there--than I ever did just sitting in a classroom.

As I always tell people "the world is my classroom".

Somewhat to my chagrin, I am an autodidact who chose a field which no one seems to believe you can teach yourself... physics.

Everything else leads to physics for me, and so it did with my education. When I found out I had learned more before I went to school than I would ever learn IN school (barring social/work habits), I lost interest rapidly.

Never tell a kid they're testing over a high school graduate level in 1st grade...

Oh, I believe it. I studied physics on my own, too. It's silly to think that you have to be taught to learn this stuff--if that's true, how did we ever discover what we know about physics in the first place? A lot of interest and a little talent goes a long way when it comes to learning things on your own.

I have extremely adept spatial cognition, when I look at an equation, I see the processes it represents... which I would admit to being something close to a "savant" type talent, and which may be due to my autism... but it isn't something that shows up as obvious unless I go in and discuss things with people. I'm good at projecting concepts into others minds as images, I find.


That is what I say lately though, btw, if no one were able to teach themselves physics, who discovered the knowledge being taught in colleges today?

every since I started taking classes online I hate going to class and listening to lecture. It is the biggest waste of my time, effort, and gasoline now. I love online classes like no other.

I wish I could able to do that, but I don,t have the energy and the disciplin for that. I do have learn some randome things by reading at least...

Autie-didact topic

Self study! Yay!! Though an interesting teachspeech or Televisualecture will augment the books I read. I have learned this way this for most of my life.

Studying on-line is a great way to learn as well.