Group Projects

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I know that whenever my teachers assign group projects, I feel all fidgety. I kind of sit there while everyone else picks partners (God forbid they just assign them) and twiddle my thumbs. If I'm lucky, everyone already has their partner or group of three or four, and I'm the only one left and I end up working on my own.

Most of the time the teacher will tell me, "Oh, well, pick a group," and I won't know what to do because I either hate everybody, or I don't know them.

How do you handle group projects? Or not?

I hate group projects. I like to be in control of what I'm doing and other people usually have other ideas of how they want to do it and how fast (or slow) they want to do it.

I generally ask to do them alone, though lately in all my classes I have a friend so now I'm going to try and ask if I can join her group (we have a group task the next two weeks).

I must say though, LennytheWicked, you described my school days perfectly. Noone ever picks me and it's so awkward when I must chose and I rather say I work alone.

I don't like group projects, but I'm working on two of them now

Does this happen to anyone else?

NT kids whose group you've put in are talking about ideas. They decide on the same idea that everyone else is deciding on (when the point is to do the opposite). You've been sitting there, staying quiet until they decide to acknowledge your existence.
"Hey, what do you think?" someone asks.
You give an answer, something that's been brewing in your head this whole time. They look at you, smile, and say, "I think we should do the other thing."

And then you have to facepalm.