I can't or subconsiously won't do my homework? Help ASAP?

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NomadicAssassin
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03 Nov 2009, 10:40 am

Every time I go to do a homework assignment I freak out and start twitching and panicing and studdering and end not being able to do it, I don't know why my doctor says it's because I don't see any value in the work which I don't, but I don't know if that's the reason why, had any body else had this problem and how did you fix it, and if not what do u think I should do?


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03 Nov 2009, 11:32 am

I had the same problem of not being able to make myself do homework until it was mostly too late. Over the years I learned to just make myself do it. I approach a stupid task now as if it were a project I had initiated myself and it makes it much easier to get into it. I pretend it is something I wanted to do, a problem I wanted to solve.

It doesn't work perfectly, but it helps a lot.



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03 Nov 2009, 12:10 pm

I am often the same way with homework. In school it was okay to do work, but at home. It took me 2 hours or more just to do a simple assignment. It takes 4-6 hours or more for writing assignments or anything big. I never played or did anything when I had that type of work. Just do it eat and then sleep and try to finish it in the morning. School homework was hell for me. It took all night to do simple work that I never wanted to do and I never understood why I had to do it.



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03 Nov 2009, 1:51 pm

I had the same issue in school. Even if I found the subject interesting I'd refuse to do the homework. It gave me such anxiety when my parents sat down and forced me to. That was the only way. It made everyone angry at me because I knew all the answers I just hated homework for some reason.

Sorry idon't have any useful advice for you. But yeah, you're not alone.



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03 Nov 2009, 6:56 pm

I always had problems with homework. I would wizz through it and not "take my time" like my teachers wanted, same with tests. But the truth is, I was a AB student, I can just cut out the BS and finish my work. In this aspect we are the same, I felt homework was too materalistic, and had nothing to do with my intelligence so thats why I rushed through it, maybe you feel the same?



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04 Nov 2009, 1:37 pm

I do feel that homework is to materialistic I find it useless it helps me in no way other than giving me more anxiety that I don't need, I know the work so why do extra? My mom is extremely angry at me at times she just dosent beleive me and thinks Im pulling a prank or joke on her, she has to literally grab my hand and put it on the page and almost guide it through what ever process I need to do, it hell my life is hell :(


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04 Nov 2009, 4:08 pm

Oh wow, that would be me. I have no idea how I managed to get advanced engineering degrees without being booted out.

One thing that helped me was getting the right study group when I was taking calculus -- I've never been one for group study, but I like the version where a few people study in the same place at the same time and just ask questions of each other when they're stuck, then go back to what they were doing.



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04 Nov 2009, 4:09 pm

Oh, and any situation where instead of doing the homework I would teach others to do it tended to work. Of course, that meant I still didn't do mine.



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04 Nov 2009, 7:02 pm

Nobody can outdo me on this topic. I just flatly refused to do any homework at home, and never once did. (and yes, I am serious - never one single minute) I did do a bit during class, and a little on the school bus as well. But many of my assignments were just not done. To be honest, I am not sure why I absolutely refused in this way. Btw, I did write my papers at university.

The typical punishment for undone homework was detentions, so I got them all the time (and even more for talking in class and not following instructions). I'm sure that there were some interesting discussions in the staff room about what to do with me. Anyway, I never go suspended, and it became clear that the Principal didn't want teachers to send me down to him, so teachers learned to cope! Since the school system was such that marks were based on test results only, my marks were supposedly not affected.

Best of all was my brilliant NT dad. He never said a single word to me about it. No nagging, no questions. His view, I think, was that if the school couldn't get me to do my homework, that was their problem. My mother followed his lead and didn't say much either, although she worried herself sick about "what was going to become of me".

If the only consequence of undone homework is detention, my advice is go to detention every day until the teachers give up on the idea of you doing homework. Unfortunately, I know that some schools include homework marks as part of the final grade, in an effort to make students subservient. And the current thinking seems to be that the proper role for parents is to harass constantly their own kids about school work.

Good Luck!



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04 Nov 2009, 7:58 pm

Heh, my teachers also discovered I had a limitless tolerance for detention and they couldn't wear me down that way.



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