Did anyone actually enjoy school?

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School was horrible until I got to highschool. I enjoyed every second of playing football. All those people watching and I didn’t have to say anything to any of them for them to like me. And being really good at it always made me happy.

I liked much of middle and high school quite a bit. Elementary school was rather boring, and in college I had health issues that got in the way of me enjoying myself.

I had a rough experience with two schools I attended for brief periods when I was 11/12 where I was the new student and didn't fit in. After that I really appreciated the secondary school I went to for six years after that, I had learned to be as careful as I could with other people and to not take anything for granted, and the school was just right for me. It would be a stretch to say that I really liked school, but it was alright.

Nope. Never enjoyed it. I don't even enjoy college.

I loved school near the end and I quite enjoyed it in the later years in juniors.
I didn't like year 7 and 9 one bit! Infants was a bit rough but I liked it.

I enjoy going to school I always did. I am so glad that I am going back. The teachers give me the positive encouragement and emotional support that I need. I was in a disability program for adults with disabilities for 10 years and had no support or understanding, felt horrible. But now that I am in school, i am getting the support and encouragement that I never got at the disability program. School is my savior, and I do not know where I would be, if I would be here, if it were not for me going back.

I used to enjoy school back from when I first started school and I would always used to be the first to wake up ready to go to school

Soon as I reached secondary school, I started not liking it because I did start to miss out on alot of things that a typical NT would do... Everytime I would be at a shop or something, the kids would used to make fun of the way i'am just because I was autistic

Since then, I tried to avoid as much as possible but then again, it was no use.... and I hated it.

I was also bullied by a boy in year 9 as i might of said in my other previous posts and it was unplessant, because he seemed so normal to me and he bullied me because of the way I looked and the way I was... he used to call me "crazy" "Mr Blobby" and "i'm from a madhouse" and all sorts. I have tried my hardest to make friends with him, but no matter what, I just couldn't do it and that was the worst year of my life... Ever since that all happened, I've been hating school and would occassionally try to bunk off a few lessons, especially PE, because he would used to make complete fun out of me and plus he was so competitive, he even attacked me a few times... It was terrifying.

Now i'm in college, and yet strangely enough I do miss being in school, so all those who are still in school, enjoy the last days in school because you won't able to have that sort of fun again yet college is fun but its completely different compared to school.

superboyian x

primary school was bad. i had no idea how to talk to people, let alone make friends, and ended up just tagging along with whichever group that'd have me. the night before every first-day of school (after holidays), i'd be so stressed because i'm scared my 'friends' won't like me anymore and i'd be a loner all over again and i'd get teased. i'd have dreams that i left the house in my furry slippers, or got lost on my way to school, or open my mouth and find that i couldn't speak - doesn't take a psychologist to work out the hidden messages...

highschool was much better, especially after year 8 once i've mastered enough social skills to actually make some real friends. i've never had trouble with schoolwork, it was just the social side of things i had problems with, so once that was sorted things just got better.

School is absolutely horrible. I entered looking forward and eager to learn, and I'll leave cynical and jaded. It's run so poorly and inefficiently. The mix of federal bureaucracy and being taught to the lowest common denominator make it a nightmare for anyone with half a brain. Seriously, if kids were allowed to push the limits and reach their potential instead of being stuffed into a box, I and many others would be able to have a Master's Degree at age 18.

College isn't much different. People will tell you "oh, but you get so much more choice over your classes and what you want to study!" which is, frankly, a big, steaming load of crap. I've constantly found it very difficult to get into classes I want, or classes at the times I want. Not only that, but they make you waste a bunch of time and money on "general education requirements" which are nothing more than a scheme to squeeze more nickels and dimes out of you. Also, if you're studying anything besides Science/Engineering/Languages, you can learn it much better and more quickly outside of school. That goes for my major (Economics). I've learned much more outside of school than I have in it. It makes it that much sadder that I'm going thousands of dollars into debt to apparently study it at college.

However, there are some valuable things I've learned in school:
- You don't need school to be educated
- School doesn't make you smarter. If you're smart, you were born smart.
- Having a degree doesn't make you any smarter. I even know at least one person with a PhD that I'm smarter than.
- College is nothing but a giant profit machine

Ah well, hopefully when my best friend and I write that book on why the education system is so horrible, I'll make enough money to pay back my debt!

At my school, it is very supportive. It is better than the adult disability services that I used to be in, which I was discriminated against because I was the only one who was not mentally ret*d, and I also was the only one who has Asperger's. At school, I have friends who also have Asperger's, mostly females, and I get encouragement, emotional positive support, and I am not treated differently. The general education requirements at my school are because my school's philosophy is "the well rounded student". We have to take writing, oral communication, intro to computers, a social science elective, and humanities. Humantities can be an art class, literature, or any thing creative. The social sciences can be history, psychology, sociology, or anything that has diversity and/or historical awareness. We have to be well written, spoken, culturally, and socially aware. Pretty much show off our degrees that we are the best college graduates out there.

I enjoy certain classes a lot, and when I was younger I loved school. I'd make sure my parents didn't take me out of class on vacations because I didn't want to miss any of it.

I am a bit lazier now, though. I still enjoy certain classes and whatnot, but school is usually either a neutral or negative experience for me.

It was especially bad when I was depressed last year, or when I moved schools and had to deal with getting picked on and all the anxiety. :/

There were parts of school I enjoyed and parts I absolutely hated. My Junior year of High School was my best. I got along with most of my teachers very well and was able to hang out in their classrooms during lunch so I wasnt thrust into my typical cafeteria breakdowns. I was never really heavily bullied in school, but I was misunderstood and taken advantage of a lot. I moved around a lot so always being the new kid I was never expected to be social and was left alone most of the time. Having 8 brothers was also in my favor.

No. School sucked. Primary sucked. All of it. Constantly struggling for acceptance. From adults. They sucked too.

Middle school sucked. BUT. It had some good side effects.
I've made my first ever "real" friends there. We share the same sense of humour.
They were also realistic and fairly logical. But without being complete "nerds".
Made a second group of friends a class higher thanks to this sort of Oprah-girl.
She seemed to take all lost souls in and was always positive about everything. Had LOADS of friends.
Climbed up the stupid social latter a bit. Learnt lots. Got into acting a lot. Learnt even more.
Now I like to think of myself as a chameleon, adjusting to any social situation thrown at me.
Although I'm not exactly flawless. Not yet.

I'd like to explain this chronologically.

(starting times)
When I was young I thought of school as some kind of fun thing. I didn't know the purpose of walking around in circles or the whole seeming unimportant stuff. I was just playing and stuff, being relatively a recluse without much concern for the future.
I had no idea how to communicate with other people just too brag, this would become a massive flaw later, inexperienced with communication. Things went well and uneventfully, and I even recalled a time where I liked schooling and it's pointless homework.

Things were easy in these early,starting times. And I should have enjoyed it more when compared to the displeasure I was going to face.

(Pain times)
This is the part of my life where I experienced roughly 70-90% of the displeasure in my life (I'm 19) and It all started in 2nd grade perhaps 50% into it when my Mom deeming me a disabled child gave me some Ritalin. Now normally I would have just shrugged this small thing off. But there was a sense of control that was being taken away from me maybe a precieved mind control. And from this sense I managed to escalate the rebellion into something destructive. And with my limited experience with communication resulted in signifigant displeasure. I just remember rebelling to the point that I would refuse to do my homework, how I would refuse to do anything over these grudges, Maybe It's a tendancy for autistic people to be convinced of what they believe. If that was the case I was certainly an average.

Around this time I got my first video game console, (A 3DO) And I used that to compensate somewhat for the intense displeasure I was going to face soon.

From the bad grades came a low self-esteem, and somehow young kids can pick up on that, and they bullied me, I hated it. But thankfully I don't remember getting physically assaulted, so It never got that bad. however I never really felt secure. I always had a nagging feeling of "I'm not good enough for this family" and such. My rebellion made my academic accomplishments go to 0. And from that came hostility from my parents. Slowly I developed a deep displeasure for schooling. Partially from the precieved double standard in school which is described in this phrase "If they wanted to teach us, why do they manage to make the whole experience so sh***y? Why do they insist they do things their way when it ruins us in the long run? To make education seem as something that must be boring?"

It wasn't totally unpleasant, I had a few friends. And they never gave me hardship. But I never could get past those feeling of insecurity that pervaded both the school world and the home world.

(disappointment times)
From my broken ambition in school, lack of friends, and increased redundancy on video games came something that made me feel bad. I was put into A special ed school system. And not one that is somehow "special" It could be described ad simply "easier" too easy in fact, I wasn't being challenged, But I had too many negative experiences with school to really complain "I liked it, why would I change it?"

I will admit, things did get easier for me during this time, and I legitimately liked it over the "pain times" and prehaps it was better for me. But the lack of academic achievement and internalized values of the schooling system caused me disappointment.
Disappointment that I have failed my mom's expectations. And disappointment that I was so far behind compared to other people.
Specifically my dad, Whom was so successful in his early days. When I was seeing some early photos of his youth, I could sense repressed negativity. Things went like this relatively uneventfully since I started, I went to high school on a curriculum equivalent of a 3-5th grader. And that was shameful. Yet I endured.

It was just 2-3 years of the same thing easy classes, that didn't take advantage of my talents. A lazy jaded person, whom didn't want to change it, and fear of the future. I didn't learn that much. But I should take note that anything was better than the pain times.
By this time I was so dependent on computer-video games that I didn't really do anything else besides. Whenever I would do homework it took my around 2-3 hours to get through minimal work due to repressed feeling about school.
I remember being told a omen from my mom that I wouldn't pass school on my senior year. And in a way, I wanted to stay because I wasn't learning that much. But I passed, and after school came another phase in my life.

(isolation times)
After graduation I fell into a trap where I would be playing video games day after day. At first I thought I wouldn't fall into it but I did.
Do you know the Japanese phenomena in japan called Hikikomori? That could describe me perfectly. I had few friends. And the friends I did spend time with didn't feel all that beneficial to me. Every day I would die a little bit inside, and I didn't do anything to fix it.
I was absolutely terrified of going to college because it would cost me money. And I was just well. scared. I could go out, but I didn't really have a purpose to do it. Other than to get food.
I lost a year of my life to this inactivity, I thought it wouldn't happen. But it did.

Hey, at least I got around 9000 Gamerscore for my Xbox360 account!

(fixing times)
I went to Oregon from nevada to my asian family members, and thing seem to be improving, at first there was fear, and depression from the disappointment and shame from earlier. I felt like damaged goods, like a person who has missed out on an important part of my development. I hanged out with some of my brother's friends, and this one event at a public swimming pool changed me.
He talked about ineffective use of time (remember hikikomori phase?) and a stressing of fundamentals. I listened, and I answered some shameful questions about my past academic failures. But it was for the better. Before I went to college, I was scared. (again the shame) And I couldn't do anything, if it wasn't for my family members to push me into a decision to do something I could have spent some more time in the hikikomori phase.

Then I went to college (without much of a plan) and I can say it was far different from what I expected (perhaps from relationship with instructor?)
While in a way I'm not learning as much as I would like to. At least it is void of the shame and negativity of the past.
And from my subtle ingrained optimism. I started to identify my physiology and problems, and making solutions.
I especially like my uncle, he is one of the few people I enjoy a lot talking to. He introduced me to some audiotapes on accelerated learning, and time manadgement. And all that other stuff. I listened internalized. (but really didn't act that much) on the information.
And I have a real sense of progress in my life.

I still have some repressed negativity toward schooling. But I'm much better here than if I was to stay in nevada.


*And please excuse the sloppy grammar I'm too lazy to fix all of that, just try and make sense of it the best you can.
*Alot of what you guys have said about schooling seems strangely like what I wanted, knowledge. Not some stupid grade.

I hated everything about school--the bullying, the routine, the social hierarchy I did not understand, and makes very little sense to me now that I'm older. In high school, the bullying tappered off, but the routine was oppressive, I learned nothing, and I still had no friends.