Disgusting knowledge

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I'm having problems with some subjects at college(I'm studying informatic systems engineery), subjects that most of people think are the easier, they hardly need to study, they just read some notes taken at class, but I read my notes, and their notes, and books and I get poor grades. And it's not because I find it difficult to understand, I understand but I don't like it, it's like reading something you think it's a lie, the idea of learning it feels disgusting ( I repeat to myself that I need to learn it to pass the exam, but I still don't want it inside my mind). That subjects have something in common, I don't know how you call them in english, that are subjects were you need to write too much about something so it looks like you know very much about it, if your answer is correct but it is too short then is wrong. It's like you have to lie to pass.

I have not problem with the 'difficult' subjects, programming is so funny and easy, and mathematics have became a little more difficult than before but I can handle them. Because of this people think I'm almost done with my career because already passed the most difficult exams, but most of the remaining subjects are like the ones that I find difficult :S

Can someone relate to this? how do you convince yourself to learn something that tastes wrong when the fear of failing the exam is not enough?


PS: Can someone correct what I have written? I feel it has too many errors.

It is very common among people on the Autism/Asperger's spectrum to have trouble learning subjects that are of no interest to them. For some reason, our brains tend to reject taking in info on things that we have no interest in, even when we need the info. I had the same problem in school. If I was interested in a subject I tended to do well in it. All other subjects were a struggle to pass. I wish I knew a way to change this, but I am now in my 50s and still have problems with this.

What questor said^

And:
there's this weird thing that many NT students seem to do. However hard they've been struggling or studying for a test, they will often tell you they just read over their notes the night before, or on the bus or something similar.
Just because it sounds like they haven't been studying doesn't mean they haven't been studying. I think it's to make others think they're super clever, or that the subject just comes naturally to them. Or maybe it's just to make others feel stupid by knowing they have to study.