Year 7 report card

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So, I was looking through my folder full of certificates and report cards. I was so surprised to find a school report card. I told my psych who diagnosed me that my mum threw them all out.
I was below average for every class except for Indonesian.

I just flipped through it and couldn't but help laugh. All the signs of AS were in there. This was 1999 too and I'm sure some people were getting diagnosed with it.

Here's an example:
"Writing - Shanti writes very well. She has limited herself to a narrow range of topics and vocabulary and will only improve with with a willingness to try new things".

The rest goes on to say that I don't hand in homework and do poorly in tests. Oh and that I'm extremely quiet.

I really wish I could have been diagnosed at least HFA because I dropped out of that school. With a dx and assistance I could have made it through high school, instead of doing homeschool and completing my high school certificate at TAFE. And I may have even got a basic after school job.
I might now have a job and live out of home. Of course I have no idea if that would have happened. But I remember at school teachers would give me the 'lazy-slow-troublemaker' label.

Maybe I'm just overreacting but was anyone else diagnosed before or in the year 1999?

Before 1999 by quite a fair few years. To be honest, I wouldn't say it massively benefited me.

I was diagnosed in 1997. Pretty early eh?

Yeah, I was still partially mute in 1997. I was home schooled so my mum was starting to see where my difficulties were. But no taking me to the doctor to see what was wrong. Back in those days we rarely went to the doctor. We were raised to believe in prayer for healing.

Why were you mute?

That sounds exactly like me in school: Doesn't do well with peers, doesn't seem to listen unless the subject interests her, never does homework, constantly disrupts class, but does excellent on tests!

I was always like, 'yay?' My parents always said I was lazy. The first person to even mention autism was my 6th year maths/science teacher combo. They were... unique. But they let me do my own thing, and I learned more that year than anyone else. These are the same teachers that let me return the years textbooks the day after they were issued because I had finished reading them. I hadn't caught on to the fact that I was supposed to keep the bloody thing.

I think if I had known in HS what I know now, and my teachers had known, I may have stayed. Maybe not, but I think there is a better chance I would have. Oh well, caint keep beating that dead horse now can I?

yeah I always got the "disruptive in class. preoccupied with self interests instead of paying attention. does not work well with classmates but is very intelligent" sort of reports. I never really gave them much thought. Just figured I was an alien.

My English teacher in Year 8 said that I don't connect with others, only do the things I want to do, don't listen in class*, etc. If only she knew what AS was, I could have been diagnosed earlier.

* this is because I can listen without having to look at the person speaking, so teachers often say I'm not listening but then I can always tell them exactly what they just said.

In elementary school a teacher made the comment on my report card that I needed to socialize more and make friends. Other comments on report cards said that I was having more difficulty settling down to work, and that I stared out the window and daydreamed a lot. However, I maintained As and Bs in my classes. I was noted as being quiet. My first grade teacher took my pencil collection away from me one day and I roamed around the room trying to find it. I must have had over 100 pencils in my desk. They were ones that were mine and ones that I would find laying abandoned in the hallways. I still have a lot of pencils.

In high school a teacher said that I always brought to class stuff (books) that pertained to my interests (roller coasters, etc.). She accused me of not paying attention. But I got an "A" in her class---I was getting the lessons.

All through my school life, including college, I would draw house plans, amusement park layouts, etc. on my papers during class. And I have school notebooks full of charts and graphs, etc. of things like aircraft passenger capacities and top speed, longest caves in the world, tent sizes and diagrams, motel furniture inventory including price, etc. I still like to do stuff like this.

I don't even know what was said on my report card. All I remember is the teacher saying I don't following rules well or instructions and I don't do well with change.

All my reports have been pretty good, but the teachers moan about how unorganised I am

You sound exactly like me. Hyper academic and intelligent but crap at fitting in and following rules and instructions/knowing how to behave, incessantly disrupts by asking questions if interested and doesn't listen if not interested...

I really went downhill in secondary school. I left at 12 and was then home schooled...thank god...

i get labeled as lazy too my guidance counselor told my mom that
i cant help it tho.
im doing good this year this is my last year so i have to step it up and do better and i didnt fail anything last semester.
and the for all the classes i usually get low quiz/test scores for mine.