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Kindergarten: Did well

1st grade: Dad started to hide homework, nearly got held back.

2nd grade: See above.

3rd grade: See 1st grade.

4th grade: Dad moves out, we move back to Portland.

5th grade: Did well, dx with Aspergers.

6th grade: Moved to Scappoose, did well.

7th grade: Did okay.

8th grade: Bullied for liking Ratchet and Clank, still did okay despite that.

9th grade: Did well, gained respect from my peers.

10th grade: That's next week. I think I will do alright this year.

In 5th grade I was offered to enroll in a Middle school for gifted students. I didn't accept.

High school- I dropped out freshman year. I had all d's when I dropped out. Don't understand the D in english, I remember learning a lot in that class. like the suffix changes of words.

College- First two years were sh***y, I don't know how I made it through those days. The last year has been better counting the fall semester of last year. Dropped Trig once and chemistry 1, once. Came back in Got an A in trig and a B in chem. 1.

I'm taking classes right now, I haven't had any test so I have no idea where I stand. Hope it will be better then it has been. The only times I hate it is when there are other students or a student in the class answering every single question when it isn't necessary. It drains me and I don't like to be in the class when that is happening. and I can't wake up in the morning or over sleep.

I am probably the biggest overachiever one will ever meet, although it wasn't always this way. At primary school, I had the typical AS ideology of simply excelling at the subjects that I was generally enthusiastic for, but when I began secondary school at age 11, I decided to work as much as I possibly could to secure the best place available at University, win awards and have a reputation for simply being the best at anything academic. There is not one exam that I do not get above 90% in, more often than not, I score a perfect 100%, or 99%, this is regardless of the class - Social Studies, Science, Maths, Chinese, History ..., I simply thrive on academic excellence. I am actually taking some classes with students the grade above myself.

However, P.E., this is a different story. I am the single worst person in my class at P.E., thank goodness I only have to take it for one more term; ditto with Art. If it is not academic, chances are, I will be horrid at it.

So yes, I am an overachiever in a big way. I am continuously talking with my teachers about how I can have impeccable grades, I am not satisfied with anything less than 100%, perfectionism is the root of these problems, albeit, I'll survive.

I recently read that there are many aspies sitting at either extremes of being top or bottom of the class, there are very few that are in normal range.

We don't do "normal" so I guess it's to be expected

I never did an IQ test or anything like that. My parents keep telling me I'm supposed to be smart but I'm not sure what gave them that impression. I never asked. I did average in school but the effort I put in was only minimal and many of my assignments were late. When I put in a bit of effort my grades tended to go way up, so there's that. I never had the motivation to work at it. Still don't. It's becoming a problem now that I'm at university. Bad luck.

How do you guys go about doing stuff that maybe you think you should do but just don't have the energy for? Particularly school.

My education is like a downhill spiral with a crash landing. I started school at 3yrs as I was recognised as gifted. I was always one of the top of the class at primary and the first couple of years at secondary. By exam time, in the 4th year, I'd slipped a bit, but I was still in the top 5%. But, things changed in the 5th year. The teachers were no help. I clearly remember a conversation with my guidance teacher. She was saying that I'd be finding it harder because of the all the studying I'd been doing and it would be difficult to do any more and that my friend was coping as she didn't need to put in the work. This was the exact opposite of the truth - she'd been studying like crazy and I hadn't studied at all, it was all just really easy until then. Now I needed to study because the stuff was a little harder and I suddenly discovered I wasn't able to study (except for the interesting stuff like biology). But, I did well enough to get into college and stayed on another at school, so I could get enough qualifications to go to uni instead. I got my degree (biology of course), but didn't do the honours year as I was petrified of the social side. I did a post-grad instead and ended up with an admin job, which I could have got with just a few basic level qualifications.

In preschool I was like all the other typically developing toddlers.

At Infants school I was behind with my reading and maths, but in front with my spelling. At 6 years old I knew how to spell the word ''argue'', which is good for a 6-year-old.

At Junior school (by age me and 4 other kids were good with punctuation in writing. I enjoyed writing stories but the stories were just average for my age - not like Dickens.

In high school I was not very bright. Maths and science were the subjects I fell in the most. By year 11, I was so bad at maths that I had to be took out of the class and taught seperately, one-to-one by a special needs assistant. (I did enjoy probability, not sure if I was good at it or not though). There was only about 8 of us in the bottom set for maths. All the rest of the kids in my yeargroup were in the top set or the middle set.

No teachers ever suspected me to be a genius. I never felt like a genius. And I still don't now.

You still writing Joe?

I taught myself everything before secondary school and during the summer holidays, so all the lessons were really easy and I got bored so I learned beyond the curriculum in my spare time. I got average 96% in my A-levels (maths, biology, chemistry, physics).

Maths GCSE was a joke; it examined me on things I had learned when I was 10 (GSCEs are for 16 year olds).

I did pretty well in school throughout the years to tell you the truth.

At the time of my high school graduation, my overall unweighted GPA was 3.6.
I just graduated from college Cum Laude (3.3-3.59 GPA required) last semester.

As you can probably guess, I pretty much made A's and B's throughout my academic career.

Did okay in elementary school...straight As in my language arts/french classes (as I found both subjects easy) and Bs in everything else.

In high school, my grades got much better, with straight As in every subject except math, which I got Bs in. I graduated with an A average and won several awards and scholarships.

The year long college certificate I earned was my easiest academic experience. I graduated #1 in my class section with an 89 average, won two major awards, and even got a 99 (!) in my literature class.

University was a bit tougher. At my first school, the only grades I recieved were Bs and B+s, even when I worked my hardest. I transferred to another school with smaller classes, and the difference was huge. Before I went on leave, I had an 88 (A) average, and luckily I pushed myself really hard despite having intense mental health issues. I will be returning January to finish up...let's hope my winning streak continues.