Learning things that don't intrest you

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04 Jan 2008, 5:34 am

OK, I read or heard (can't remember) that Aspies can become gret experts on their field of intrest BUT they have far more difficulty learning something that doesn't intrest them at all.

now many universities (or at least in my country) have limited space in certain subjects for example health care, and look at your overall grades to determine how good you can learn and what your chances are to succeed in the course. But doesn't this give them a bad picture of someone's chances in a course who has asperger?

The chances for someone with Asperger are so much different, yet they are judged like an NT would be judged. I think that becaue of this, the world is losing many big talens :(



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04 Jan 2008, 5:47 am

That sounds exactly like me. I do well in what I enjoy but struggle in what I have no interest in.



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04 Jan 2008, 6:42 am

In Australia, you can get in as a "mature aged student" one year after school.

So, if you don't have the marks, wait a year and sit for a different type of exam. Of course, that's no reason to waste the year, why not get a job in the same industry that you want to learn in. That will get your foot into the university.



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04 Jan 2008, 7:01 am

Yes, indeed certain subjects that I naturally enjoyed I would be one of the top of the class. Other subjects took more work and disipline but I still managed in collage to make deans list every semester, half the time without really studying or even attending.

I know their are some classes that are nessissary for your feild, and that these classes may not be something you may be interested in learning about, but if you are going to school to get an education in your feild then wouldnt many of the classes you will have to take to graduate be interesting to you because they are about your feild. Not all of course, but I think I did well in collage because so many of the classes I took were interesting or related to my feild, of course such classes as English and Lit were far more difficult and I found the books in these classes almost impossible to read or understand because I just could not focus and just could not get into it, one may get away with doggin it in high school but in collage when you have spent alot of money (or your parents) and want to succeed, these classes can present a problem.


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04 Jan 2008, 7:09 am

a big problem for me is learning french in high school.

1: because it's the most boring thing I have ever done.

2: as soon as I am done with high school I will never ever use it again



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04 Jan 2008, 7:14 am

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wilco said:
a big problem for me is learning french in high school.

1: because it's the most boring thing I have ever done.

2: as soon as I am done with high school I will never ever use it again


Yeah, I hated learning French and Italian too.. I got caught several times doing my homework under the desk in those classes.

Funnily enough, when I finally got to France about 10 years later, I started remembering it - so I must have taken it in after all - of course, I couldn't remember it during the exams.



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04 Jan 2008, 7:54 am

My interest excludes everything else. I cannot learn something that doesn't interest me; there's a wall that lets nothing in, and only my interest has the ability to pass through it.



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04 Jan 2008, 8:13 am

Danielismyname wrote:
My interest excludes everything else. I cannot learn something that doesn't interest me; there's a wall that lets nothing in, and only my interest has the ability to pass through it.


exactly but the strange thing is for me that I really cant learn it. no matter what I do I have to force myself to paw attention. I get tired start yawning, get distracted by, well everything. I read a word, say it 100 times, wait 10 seconds and I can no longer remember what the word was. :x



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04 Jan 2008, 9:02 am

That's what the professionals told me. And which I answered with: no. I have either trouble concentrating on all things or on none, so it happens that I can learn things that I think are uninteresting and that at other time I can't concentrate on things that interest me very much.
It appears that this isn't very asperger's-like?



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04 Jan 2008, 10:12 am

My transcript ( all 2,967 hours of it---hyperbole...) has grades either "F"--never went;didn't bother to drop---or "A"---made 100+ and did all the wienie extra credit available. I would rather gargle with Drano, with a ground glass chaser, than read one paragraph of something I don't care about. I've learned to parrot politely, whilst pining for the fjords...



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05 Jan 2008, 2:58 pm

I get straight A's in all my three English classes in tests etc. But I got a D+ in religion because that is as boring as it get's. Only thing I think religion brings with it is dissagreements and fights.
English is maybe my favorite subject, wich also goes to a positive degree of my grade. i am actully at maybe 10th grade level in English and I'm in the 8th grade.



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13 Jan 2008, 8:30 am

On a whole, I don't really have that problem. I love to learn, and school is one of my passions. I do struggle a bit in mathematical courses, but it's not because I don't find them interesting. I do get higher marks in my subjects of interest, though.

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13 Jan 2008, 8:37 am

Mist wrote:
On a whole, I don't really have that problem. I love to learn, and school is one of my passions. I do struggle a bit in mathematical courses, but it's not because I don't find them interesting. I do get higher marks in my subjects of interest, though.

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13 Jan 2008, 8:51 pm

I can't learn anything in my AP European History class because I really don't care about history that much. But I'm quick to learn things about science because I love it so much. Same with English if I like what we are doing in the class.



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14 Jan 2008, 3:00 am

Wilco wrote:
But doesn't this give them a bad picture of someone's chances in a course who has asperger?


Yes.
I am not at university, but before I went to high school I had to take an exam to determine what level I should be taught at. The test wasn't of interest and honestly I didn't know the answers. I just wrote down anything for the answers.
I got put in a class of people learning at a low level...where I excelled and got moved up. This was because the class was interesting because the teacher incoperated a students interest to help them learn a certain thing.
When I got moved up to a higher level class...everything was boring and I just didn't pay attention. There fore, I was failing at all subjects with an exception to English and music. I didn't stay at school long enough anyway to determine an accurate grade. :roll:


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17 Jan 2008, 6:51 pm

My big problem is reading text books

I have a good sized collection of books myself but all I care to read is Scifi and fantasy.
And the occasional cookbook or How to manual like How to build your own computer or
a guide to black smithing.but when a teacher hands me a book of contemporay lit I can't stand it. for one I remember everythinging I already read most of the stupid things in 7th grade. I have never been able to read somthing twice or play a RPG game more than 3 or 4 times. but for the life of me if it is in a math book history book or english lit book I can't read it. I just see words and none of them fit.

Another thing is that the SATs were made for NTs in mind only. the test was made for resoning and I can't even do the pre-test. My teacher says I am doing great. But I think I may as well be reading greek .


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