Hands-on classes better for Aspies?

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Does anyone else here enjoy taking hands-on classes where you get to do actual work, like woodshop? This semester, I am taking a residential maintenance class that is going pretty good so far, it's in my school's workshop and has tiling, drywall and wood-working and other sections that I'm hoping we'll get to soon. Right now we're going over safety and different types of tools.

There is another class at my school that I'm not in, but is similar to mine, that is building a real house that someone will live in. My class does more repair and maintenance but maybe we will go over there and put up drywall or something.

Last year I took basic woodshop and made this, a shelf for my model bikes with hooks for my hats. I got an A, my friend who was in that class with me is taking a more advanced woods class this year but it was a full year class.

I always like hands on classes best too. My senior year of high school I took photography and metal jewelry making at an art school for public school students in my hometown. I liked being able to go in and just focus on what I was doing.

That's why I always loved science lab classes.

I took a metalworking/engines class in high school, where we got to take an engine apart and put it back together again in the second semester. I became obsessed with the work, and even sneaked in during lunch hour once when the door was left unlocked. I was caught, but didn't get into a lot of trouble. At the time, I didn't understand that I wasn't supposed to do that.

No. I lack the confidence to do something hands-on, and I'm poor at following directions for such kind of work.

Aww damn...I LOVE hands-on classes ! I haven't taken one since I left college in 2005.

I absolutely detested anything hands on. Maths and sciences have always been my favourite.

i enjoy hands on classes. i hate math and history because the only way you can teach it is with boring books and paper.

depends on the work. Anything that requires me to use physical force obviously isn't for me (woodshop). But science/lab type stuff is ok.

I can't do that kind of stuff because I get overwhelmed when I do too much at once or don't get enough instruction, which often happens in that sort of class for me.

I hate hands-on activities with a passion. I think it's related to double-tasking for me. For example, it's harder to both to the work and perform an experiment in classes like chemistry. And I can also be pretty clumsy, which isn't very good in that type of environment. I definitely don't need hand-on experience to learn stuff, as I can usually understand concepts perfectly well when presented with just the concept itself. In fact, I would say I learn best that way. But it all depends on your style of learning; that's what they like to say.