were you a good student in school/college?

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aspies can be excellent students, or horrible. I was lousy and never did my homework. Hated school and was bored to death. We get bored easily, and I found it hard to sit still.

I went from pretty good to lousy in what were above average academic/intellectual environments . I was not a conscientious/swot type student. If I had initial difficulty with a subject, or it didn't interest me much, I would tend to put less effort into it.

Depended on the subject.
Biology, geography, languages and some of technical education I would have an interest in.
Maths went over my head so I gave up trying
All the rest couldn't interest me less.
School on the whole was a boring experience and I got forever reminded how I could do better if only I tried.
In the end I stopped trying alltogether

Very good.

I went from straight from high school to business school & banged off 130.5 credits in 2 years by the age of 19. I was also the Chair of Business & Health Sciences on the Student Association.

Very successful aspie

how many credits for a one semester course in that business school?
how many classroom hours per semester?

btw, congrats!

Let's see, I broke a window, snuck out of classes, got into the public drive and deleted all of the student and teacher files, frequently played pranks on other students, and cheated on my personal finance final just so I could pass the class. (I took a picture of the review answers with my iphone and just looked at that during the test) Not to mention convincing my summer school teacher I needed an 11th grade history credit when I really didn't need one and I got a free credit all in 1 day. I was a very mischievous teen and I still am today but the only difference is that you can't pull the same s**t off when you're at work or in your 20s. No more i'm just a teenager excuse.

I would have not passed 9th grade if it wasn't for my parents. I wasn't motivated at all to do homework. Especially math, omg I was horrible at math. Not to mention pretty much all math teachers are serious no-nonsense people. I would have been happy with a D minus in all of my math classes. I'm no idiot, i'm actually pretty smart and I am inquisitive but school just wasn't for me. Not my style of learning.


Yup I was a pretty good student.

I also hated the way the teachers taught in school, wasting time and dragging the lesson when I could've summed up the whole lesson in five minutes. That's what made school so boring.

Not every semester had the identical course load, but approximately 1/4, so 32.xx per semester. IIRC, I had between 8-10 courses per semester in a set program w/ zero electives. The average age of students in my program, and school wide, was 28. The eldest in my class was a 54yo mechanical engineer from China. I was the youngest.

Classes ran from ~8am-5:30pm m-f w/ some hour long breaks here and there & a 3 hour break, school wide, in the middle of every Wednesday. Add in the team/group work outside of class, reading, studying, homework etc and it's basically a damned near all consuming 24/7 educational commitment. On the first day of class, 2nd year students advised 1st year students that if you weren't in a relationship don't bother with one and if you were in one that wasn't super strong then don't expect it to last.. and they were right, there wasn't much time for anyone to have much of a life outside of studying there - which suited me just fine!

Finishing that was probably the single most intense thing I've EVER put myself through & likely ever will... especially since I was still more than a decade away from being self aware of my own ASD and was certainly not eating the types of foods that benefit me.. damned near lost my mind during the 3rd semester lol. Serious stress.. BUT, I was determined to finish it - and I did.

I've had some other successes in life & work since then, but also a loooooot of setbacks along the way.. but now that I have my ASD very well under control I'm making rapid forward progress & am catching up and surpassing my NT peers in terms of work/finances. In due time I'll blow past them when I finally launch the business plan I've had spinning in my head for the last several years. Bit by bit I'm working towards it.. I've planned the work, and am now working the plan. If all goes well I'll continue accumulating capital, resources, and skills over the next year and then be in a very solid position to "pre-launch" my business plan come next Spring. Several friends are just waiting for me to get going on it as they want a piece of it - which I've invited them to have. One recent review from a friend, before I even thought to invite him aboard, was "I like it. I wanted to be involved. Let me know when." and DAMN did that ever feel good to hear! Ideally I'll be able to pre-launch it on the dl on a part time basis, prove the concept and our ability to perform the process successfully, then launch it & sign enough contracts for friends/family to eventually quit their current jobs and transition over to this business model. Blah blah blah.

Not to brag, but I've also been highly successful in the.. umm, sexual realm of things. Not so much in the relationship department, yet, but that will come when I meet the right person. I can feel it. (I could have a relationship at any moment as I've had several interested parties, but I'm just not interested in them and am waiting for the right one for me.) I've accomplished many other things, too, along my journey.. including failure. I've failed at many many things, some of them spectacularly so lol, BUT, I've successfully learned MANY things from those failures that others wouldn't learn in a hundred lifetimes because they never bother to Try things in the first place.

I've also successfully gotten myself into decent physical shape @ 6'2 199.5lbs 13%bf & can drop and do 80 pushups no problem then go for a 10 mile run. I could NEVER do that before the past year or two & could never have imagined myself doing it. But now I have and it's fairly easy so I set my eyes on much bigger better goals to strive for all around. I've also finally got the stamina & coordination to kiteboard a whole lot better than ever and am looking forward to getting back to the ocean this Summer. The healthier I get, the better I can accomplish anything I set my mind to.. and I'm looking forward to some massive successes ahead. Sure, I've accomplished a bunch of things in the past that I do give myself a bit of credit for... but I feel that my potential is so much greater than anything I've managed to do so far and I'm planning on realizing it by working ever harder & smarter for it.

Kaizen,
Richard

I was a decent student in high school--a better student in college.

They are catering to the sub-normals and the normals. They don't give a f**k about the superior minds like yours.

what kind of business?
if i may inquire
can PM reply if u wish

Was lousy because I found it all to boring

But I guess certain teachers being rubbish and/or lazy didn't help.

Dropped out of college because I couldn't get along with anyone at all.

Mediocre student until the last two years of college

I've always been a good student, at least at more academic subjects like English and math. I'm a goody-goody for the most part, except for my meltdowns.

Testing-wise, I generally did pretty well; however my grades often suffered because I didn't do my homework consistently and my participation was somewhat lacking.