Do you have problems with english?

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The funny thing is that I do very good at English. However, unlike many other aspies, I have a lot of trouble with math and science. I guess we can't be good at everything .

I am extremely good when it comes to English. When I was only ten, I tested at a college level for language mechanics. Essays for me are no problem for me at all, but I just don't like doing them.

English is not one of my stronger subjects.

In the Y6 Sats tests i scored a 6 in Maths & Science and a 5 in English
and in Y9 Sats i scored a 8 in Maths, and a 6 in English and didn't take Science test.

In GSCE i am now getting some support from an older friend who got a A*!

Yes. I am excellent at knowing the rules of spelling and grammar, but I have huge problems putting my thoughts into flowing sentences.

I hate writing essays. In fact i should be writing one for english right now.
For me the problem is staying focused and getting the words out right.

This is my problem too. I'd really like to express something, whatever, in writing, but I can't. Just some opinions which are expressable through essays, but those are pretty limited.

Well, first it is often good to organize your ideas for what to write about so write out all of your ideas, categorize them roughly and make them the paragraphs that you will write for the body. For the intro, you might just want to rush in, write down some things that you will expand in the body mentioning that they are a part of the focus for your paper. In the body, expand upon your ideas, give them more details and adjectives, like not only should school be banned because it forces kids to do work but school is evil for infringing upon human liberty and its attempts to alienate the inalienable rights given by birth which includes self-ownership. Just do stuff like that. Finally, just close out by stating simplified aspects of your points. If you have perfectionist notions try to get over them, you just need to write a paper, you want to do it well but try to keep going and your thoughts flowing.

I mostly have problems with expressing my thoughts into words. Oftentimes, I'll have to rewrite it a few times before it's what I want it to be, or sometimes I'll be lost for words and spend too much time thinking of one to write.

Yeah, problems like this are difficult. It is hard to learn to be quick on one's feet but it can be done with practice and effort if one chooses. Reading a lot is probably something else that can be done to help with that.

I have a slight problem with understanding the plot of a play or Shakespearean script. Though I am good at the reading, writing and Shakespeare tasks, I was quite bad at the reading and Shakespeare tasks about 6 months. Those of you who know what a KS3 SAT paper is, I got a level 7 on my English Paper!

Interesting how a thread asking for input from other aspies with composition problems has spurred a flurry of bragging instead. I'm a little disappointed.

OP, I have profound difficulties with composition. However, I'm in a writing intensive field (politics). I spend several times longer than my peers in grad school on papers. It's interesting because most profs love my writing style and my grammar is excellent. (I still laugh thinking about being showered with complements by one, begging me to enter a PhD program. If she only knew!) Like you, I tend to keep even online posts short because it's such a chore. I'm left feeling completely inadequate when I see the former beauty queen in my program post another 3000+ word blog entry on a whim. I like that you're seeking out others with the problem. My advice is to seek out a field w/o much writing obviously, like some respected field of applied science. Speaking of the english/science/math divide, I've only excelled in science, but avoided because of the underlying math, which I grade well in but find bothersome. As a result, I couldn't choose what may have been a better path and I'm stuck in a painfully laborious writing-based field. The fatalist in me says I'm doomed to fail up against my real-world peers if I ever break into the workforce. I'm pretty much determined to end my life when that happens. Main advice: stay as far away from writing in the future regardless of how other facets of the fields confuse or sour you at face.

English is not my first language, my english is so poor. At this moment I finish my english courses, but I think I need more practice.

I'm better writing than talking, whether english or spanish. At school I'm one of the best writers, but I'm extremely quiet, and I have a lot of problems with oral questions and expositions.

I have days when my laguage abilities are very fluent and articulate and the essays "flow"... and days when I can't utter a word properly and couldn't write an essay if my life depended on it.

I don't have this exact problem, but mine is similar. I have decent pronunciation, but I have trouble articulating the level of vocabulary I'm capable of in speech because I stumble over my own words. This happens to me nearly all the time; I realize it is a reaction to stress, and is aggravated by having to look directly at the person I'm speaking to. As such, it may seem like I'm mispronouncing or misusing words, but rather I am attempting to speak in the same proper sentence structure I would use to write. Could this have to do with having fits of social muteness during my childhood, or is this more a result of being a language perfectionist?

I don't really have any English problems, it's just that I find it rather difficult to stay focused and listen to the teacher.