Grades and Aspies..

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Hi, i'm very new to this community but i'm thrilled.

Here it goes:
I'm wondering what kind of grades Autistics score and how they feel about them.
(I'll start with my own)
I've recently gotten a very bad rapport and i'm feeling pretty bad about it.
In Belgium, we've got 3 high-school levels; (from difficult to easier) ASO, TSO and BSO.
I'm in TSO and i normally have good grades which i always 'reason' to average grades because i'm not in ASO. (which is harder).
Because of that, i feel like a loser sometimes...

And what about you guys?

I got straight A's in high school but I had extra help. In middle school I was getitng F's because I was failing finishing my school work on time because I was still working on it. But once I was put into resource room, my grades went back up again.

I always get A's on individual assignments, but I often get C's as overall class grades because I miss assignments or am absent too often.

I got As and Bs in high school, and mostly Bs in college up to this point.

I have roughly a 3.0 GPA right now

Tim

Many of my grades were poor in school. No one ever gave me a reason to do schoolwork and I never knew what grades were for until an advisor brought me aside in my senior year of highschool and told me about college.

I got mostly As in primary and secondary school. I did well in college too, but at that point, I had PTSD and ME so my anxiety was bad and I couldn't perform well in exams, so my actual A-level grades were not very good. (Prior to that I really liked exams!)

I also had to change colleges halfway through my A-levels because my initial college was useless and teachers were being suspended and not turning up to lessons. Also, I wasn't getting very good support there - people just kept saying things that I didn't understand and there wasn't a well structured timetable.

I took 2 years out before Uni because of illness. When I went to Uni, I did reasonably well, and despite bullying at home managed to graduate with a 2:1.
I then went on to do an MA and I passed, but didn't do as well as I would have liked because of illness caused by side effects of horrible medication. Also, I didn't find out I was dyslexic or had AS until I was doing my Masters, and was not getting any specific support for this.

I hope to do a PhD one day, but only if I can get good support in place first.

the same grades as the rest of the world. Just because people have AS doesn't mean they all get the same grades in school.

Yes; I think the whole 'most people with AS are above average intelligence' thing is a fallacy.

I think that:
1) It is normally the more intelligent people with social difficulties that get identified. E.g. people speculate about Bill Gates having Aspergers but they don't talk about guys of average intelligence who show symptoms.
2) 'Special' Interests are often mistaken for intelligence.

AFAIAA; across the whole autistic spectrum, levels of intelligence have a similar dispersion to that of the wider community.

I got a C in both craft and design.

My grades vary a great deal. When I am interested in something, such as symbolic logic, I get very high grades, like 100%. If a class is uninteresting, I might even fail.

High school salutatorian. 3.7 GPA at college currently that's probably heading down because I can't focus anymore.

Well I think that there are many people with AS who are intelligent, but their performance in school doesn't always reflect that. At the same time, there are people who did well in school who I wouldn't consider very smart.

On my school, there are 4 other autistics (of which i know 2 are Aspies) and they all have grades up in 80% to 90%.
I can't believe that's just coincidence.


Other question i have regarding studies is:
My strongest point is understanding the things i study, all my classmates just learn it until they know it but they still don't really understand it. (Which is why they mostly fail on math and such)

Is this asperger-typical or just something personal?

Sorry but having AS doesn't mean that you will get better grades in school. Einstein was reputed to have AS and he dropped out of school. Does that mean that he's stupid? People with AS usually normal to above average intelligence, but the grades you get in school can depend on any number of school and personal factors that may or may not have anything to do with AS.

I'm specificly referring to grades as 'reasonably accurate representation of your capabilities'.
I know having good grades does not mean you're smart but here, in Belgium, having good grades in ASO does mean something.
I may have phrased my post bad, sorry for that then.

I almost always get good grades... but I sort of attribute it to the fact that my mom helps me with studying and she isn't very tolerant of bad grades so I HAVE to get good grades... otherwise, I think... I'd have much higher grades than the class average in almost every subject, but they'd be considerably lower than my grades are right now.