How do you do in school?

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What kind of student are you? If you have difficulties in school, what are they and do you think it is because of your AS? If you do well in school, do you think that your AS is an advantage? I personally, do pretty well in school (but I have had a difficult past, with bullying, teachers, etc). I don't think that my AS is an advantage, other than it attributing to my high level of interest in most courses. I have made a lot of progress in the past few years (a lot of this thanks to my loving mom and wonderful therapist). I used to have a hard time with bullying, but it peaked for me in about 7th grade. Is bullying a problem for you?

I voted "bad". If I do have AS, then I'm sure that's at least part of it, but other problems of mine make it harder.

I do very well academically (I'm aiming to be valedictorian, but trying not to get my hopes up). I'm alright socially--below the NT average, but much better than a lot of aspies. I have friends, and I think I am well respected by peers. However my friends are not as close to me as they are to one another and I suspect that among many of my peers I am respected but not liked. My personality is too intense, brutal, and, to be perfectly frank, grating for most people to take. But my friends can be just as bad in their own ways, so we all love each other for those traits.

I don't. I've been out of mainstream two years, but whilst I was in it, things were sort of alright up until high school, a little bullying here and there, academically very good, but then things fell away and I left because of depression and social phobia caused by major anxiety, probably worsened by AS itself. But I have recovered and am continuing with education at home presently.

Was top through primary school and first part of secondary school no effort, but things started to go wrong around Y9 because I decided I wasn't going to do anything in school at all...just turn up to the lessons and do the bare minimum because I hated it there, which was a silly decision, and in the end I underperformed when it came to GCSEs, which isn't a disaster, but I wouldn't be able to do Law or Medicine if I wanted to (bare minimum seems to be 9 A*). Lucky I don't. A levels also not going terrifically well, hardly did any work throughout the last year, but I guess I was more shaken up by the change than I thought at first, starting with the low moods every day etc. I thought it was all going really well, and then down I went, although peers-wise it's been amazing! Everyone is so friendly and so nice. But I still feel worried about going to school, walking around there. Just crowds of people everywhere. I'll get over it. My AS is never an advantage. I don't have an Aspie memory as in, it's not a savant memory, but by ordinary standards it's very good, which makes it easier, especially to remember social rules and things. But I was a lot quicker at that kind of thing when I was younger actually, now I'm still puzzled by some of the things they do. I guess I've hit the inevitable brick wall- you can learn the theory but applying it is different. Now I'm trying to get some marathon revision done (five hours a free day and a few hours after school which is a LOT for me in terms of schoolwork! been so lazy for so long) and it's not too bad...I just hope I can get those 5 As in the summer. Somehow my motivation is back and I do want this.

My abilities are scattered.
According to teachers and my parents, I have the potential to be a valedictorian, knowledge-wise. I am just not very motivated, and I also have some executive functioning/overall planning problems that I definitely need to work out before I get out in the working world. I am very, very good at language and history classes (and I take the highest levels of those classes), but my mathematics skills are just average, so I take a regular-level class. I take honors Biology (would be gifted, but my mathematics class is lower.) I'm also on Academic Team... I know the info that I teach myself, but I can't seem to retain about 30-40% of what I am taught by a teacher. Hence why I like to consider myself partially autodidactic; I still have to learn at school, but I teach myself much more at home. :3

Socially, I don't even know... I talk with people and many of them seem to like me, but I am often in a daze of sorts due to sensory overload and I'm frequently too fatigued to deal with people. I feel like people like me there, and they show me that they do, so I think I'm getting along okay in the social area.

But as I mentioned, sensory problems are a huge... well... problem.

I almost graduated in the top quarter of my class from high school. I could have ranked a lot higher in high school if I wasn't so lazy.

Now, in college, my grades so far are good, but not outstanding. I've made mostly As and Bs in my classes, with the exception of this semester, wherein I'm making an A and two Cs.

Socially, I'm doing a lot better in college than I did in high school. My social skills could still use some work, but it's definitely an improvent over high school.

bad cause i get bad grades and i dont get the classes and no friends and stuff

mostly bad, overall. except my last year of school, because there was nothing i had to do.. so would just play guitar on my own.

I failed at school because nobody cared, and I didn't care, so it was a lose-lose situation.

I do well academically mainly because of a friend with whom I compete for grades. He's 2nd in my class, while I'm 4th. Socially I do OK. I have some friends, but I always worry that they just kind of put up with me because I wont go away. I don't have any evidence to support that but that doesn't stop me from worrying.

When I was in school I did well on tests but was failing everything but PE because I never did homework. I wasn't made fun of but nobody really spoke to me often and I never really spoke to them. So I guess pretty good?
Oh and now that I'm homeschooled I have very high grades because I HAVE to do my homework but I still don't talk.

Now that I've gotten my act together, I do almost perfect. Low nineties. Quite proud of myself. It's truly a pity that I am in the last semester of my last year of secondary school. I'm in year five, a.k.a. grade thirteen.

I think I'm not going to college despite this. The cost is far too high.

School is not good. I did my 9 first years as I have to by law. But then it was enough.
I'm not stupid, I actually have high IQ, but school don't work for me.
Now they are working to see if I can do some academic tests and show that I know what you should know to get some upper secondary school score.
Perhaops when I feel better I can start study again, but I just got all my diagnoses and everything is pretty messed up.