Do you impulsively drop courses?

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I am a university student and I'm currently doing really well but my grades have fluctuated a LOT depending on whether what I was studying was related to my interest at the time. The last two years I have been doing well and getting good grade but when this happens I get really perfectionistic and at the first sign of things not going well in a course I get really anxious and drop said course. I'm curious whether others (and how many others) who are diagnosed with AS do this as well. I also have an anxiety disorder btw…………

No, my major has no electives and since I chose it late if I wanted to graduate on time dropping isn't an option (and I don't really want to increase my loans even more because of dropping).

I do impulsively drop and add classes before they start though. I don't think I've ever kept the entire original schedule I start with when I register. Sometimes I regret it when it is a class that had a waiting list and I have no chance of getting back in when I decide I do want to take it afterall.

I wouldn't call that impulsive...you're doing that for anxiety reasons, which is reasonable. I also have an anxiety disorder along with AS, and I often impulsively want to drop a course or start planning to do it...I sometimes even start thinking about dropping out of school and extremes like that, but I never do (drop out of school I mean, I have dropped a course if it was really bad).

I have dropped out of school as well. I obviously subsequently returned..........

yes i do this, I had some stress last year and couldnt score as high as I wanted and so dropped 2 very expensive courses. Ive got to finish my msc this year as its the last year the course is running so I hope I dont screw it up again. I found these perfectionism books helpful

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Overcoming-Perf ... 862&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Present-Perfect ... =8-4-spell

I've done this a few times. Sometimes in the past anxiety has caused me to do this. The work is never really overwhelming to me unless it involves group work. I have dropped classes before because they involved too much group work.. Or if people talk to me too much

I've only dropped classes a couple of times. One class I dropped was because I was taking it with my friend who ended up dropping out of school in the middle of the term.
However, my grades do wildly fluctuate depending on my mood during that term, and whether or not I like the subject.

I never dropped a course in college.
With all the money I paid into classes, seemed like a waste to drop a course so that maybe you can get a B instead of a C the next time.

Yes, which is why although I went to college at 16 I haven't even completed a 2-year degree and I'm 27 now. Sometimes I get overwhelmed before I register for the semester (so that's killed a bit of time), or sometimes I get frustrated with the class or my schedule, and instead of dropping one class, I panic and drop them all.

I'm trying very hard this time. I just had my first mathematics exam of the semester and my second computer science test. I received a B on these exams, and as every other grade I have received was an A, I had to fight my urge to drop again. I'm no longer confident that I know the material well enough for the finals which are both worth about a third of my grade. It's probably anxiety, but also perfectionism. I'm trying to tell myself that no grade is far worse than a B.