Troubles with group works

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I've always had troubles with group works in school, since I was at elementary school. The biggest problem is that I always remain without a group, but when I have found a group, if very difficult for me organizing the work with the others.
Just a week ago the science substitute gave us a biology group work to do, and I haven't found a group yet because all the groups are alredy done, and however no one wants me in their group.
Do symilar things ever happen to you? If yes, what do you do? Any advices?

I always refused and still refuse to work in groups since they are a waste of time and I prefer to work independently, even more so since this is much more efficient.

You think group work is bad, try group therapy.

If there's a lowest level of hell it's group therapy.


If there is any directive for "the best way to torture an aspie", it's group therapy.

I can relate, a lot.

I've often had to deal with having to do group work at school; unfortunately I don't think I've ever really dealt with it very well. I do have two friends in school, whom I can work with well enough in classes. However, stick me in a class without one of them in - or even make me work in a group with them and other people - and I can't cope.

The best way to deal with it is probably to talk to the teacher, though that can be hard. Hopefully they can either allocate you to a group or give you individual work to do. If you let the teacher know that you struggle with group work, they'll be more likely to be able to either give you individual work or help you with group work in the future.

My personal response often seems to be to just switch off, but that's just about the least effective way of dealing with it.

Very well-known.

Sometimes, even those that I thought I were (sort of) friends with didn't even ask me, so I often ended up doing all the work on my own.

In your case, ask the teacher what to do.

Concerning therapy and things like that: You're not even necessarily bad at group work. It sounds rather like you're not given the chance simply because everybody refuses to talk to you.

For some reason I still don't really understand, group work suddenly turned easy in university for me.

If the professor/teacher doesn't want to let you do individual work, you could go to the disability accommodations office for your school and get documentation stating that you can do your work individually instead of in groups if you elect to.

For the future, a good way to get in on a group (should you want to) is to say "I'm good at X, is anyone looking for someone who's good at X in their group, because I don't have a group yet." You could even follow it up with, "I'm not good at Y, so if someone is good at Y, I'd like to be a part of that group."

Yeah, I get that now and then. I always it was rather pointless, really-like the teacher was too lazy to grade individual projects.
That aside, I usually just be quiet and as a result the groups will form and I will be the odd girl out and therefore left alone. On occassion that does not happen, in which case I volunteer to be the scribe and don't have to talk anyway.