What Are Your Academic Strengths?

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I'm using Droppy's method, with an addition of a grading system of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 with 1 being the worst and 5 being the best all relative to my opinion of my personal talent in the other areas:

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Physics, chemistry, applied math - 3.5 - I'm not actually sure how good I am at these as I never did any work whatsoever but when I did it was fairly easy to pickup.
Languages, writing (fiction or non-fiction), linguistic - 3.5 - I'm very fluent and my linguistics are (trying to be modest) better than average. Downside, I am too verbose.
Logic, pure math, theoretical computer science - 5, 4 - Did not score theoretical computer science because I have never really worked with it.
Engineering, IT - 4 - I'm unsure about engineering so I scored only according to IT.
Life sciences, medicine, pharmacology - 4 - Have never done medicine nor pharmacology but I enjoy researching the fields from time to time, so I only scored according to life sciences.
Political science, economics - N/A - Have never done either or really being interested in either.
Philosophy - 4 - Love philosophy and naturally philosophical in many ways.
Fine art, music, photography - 2, 4, 2 - Needless to say I'm terrible at art and photography, but pickup music fairly easily.
Media, communications, journalism - N/A - Never really worked with any.
Performing arts: film, dance, theater - 1 - Yeah.. no. Get me out, arrgh!
Education, psychology, sociology - 5 - This is the one I chose on the poll. Quoting my friends and some others 'Really good at explaining stuff.' Psychology is a lifelong prime interest of mine.
Anthropology, archaeology - N/A - Never really worked with any.
Business, law, international relations - N/A - Never really worked with any.
Ethnic studies, gender studies, cultural studies - 1 - Some of my least favourite subjects.
Earth science, meterology, environmental studies - 4, 2, 3 - That's just how it is.
History, geography - 2, 3 - Again, that's just how it is as far as I'm concerned.
Decorative art, woodshop, metalshop - 1 - I'm actually terrible, if I ever had to work in any of these fields my brain and body would explode simultaneously.

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Unapologetically, Norny.
-chronically drunk

I picked other because I'm good at reading and writing/linguistics but definitely not languages. I took Spanish for several years in school and only ever managed to learn a few words here and there. I'm also good at things like earth science and environmental science. Math is my worst subject, especially algebra and other higher level math although sometimes I manage to forget how to do lower level math from time to time too.

Everything to do with words and analysis. Suck at everything to do with numbers and visuo-spatials.

Earth science, medical science, art, etc. I suck with math. Numbers are meaningless to me once you get past the basics of addition, subtraction, and multiplication. I guess they are too abstract, you can't see, touch, or hear pi. Just a meaningless jumble of abstract digits

Rocks, rain, hearts, and veins I can see and theoretically touch. Language and music you can hear, and sometimes see. They are solid, real, I can understand them.

I guess that's why I hate modern art. it has no recognizable form. It doesn't look like anything. Give me classical art any day over modern any day.

Creative Writing was probably my best subject, though I probably couldn't make a career out of it because most people don't understand my version of poetic writing. I focus on the chaos within life/everything and make it understandable for some people that don't see my perspective on things. Some can understand it, others can't. I think out of a class of something like 15 people, only 2 or 3 understood my poetic writing (all girls, interestingly enough).

Academic strengths? I don't know, really.

The things that I'm best at (music, visual art, building and making things) are things that I could never try to know/study in an academic way....I have tried more than once and I will never try again.

Interesting that writing and languages has such a high percentage. I thought people with ASDs were supposed to be like 100% STEM geniuses

My main strengths seem to be analytical and synthetic, mostly in IT and engineering. I do have an MSc in microelectronics and wanted a career as a computer architect; sadly, my AS got in the way even of that. I have also recently developed in interest in mathematics and found things like set theory and formal logic fascinating.

Perhaps I would have been good at that, but basic math skills always held me back because the way it was taught when I went through the school system was positively AS-hostile; teaching an exact science by example was always the height of irrationality; however, it seemed the only ways NTs could learn things and we (officially) didn't exist back then.

If only basic primary school maths was taught from axioms through to derivations, with primitives taught by rote (i.e., having add, subtract and divide tables as well as a times table), the way math actually works, it would have been a lot easier; it was only when I did a first-year degree-level math course at University that it started to make sense at last and that was purely down to the way it was taught.

More recently, I have developed quite well in (amateur level) cosmology and am putting that to good use at the local astronomy society.

I'm pretty good across the board with a few glaring exceptions, so I'm only including the exceptions below:

Fine art, music, photography
Performing arts: film, dance, theater
Decorative art, woodshop, metalshop

Anything that requires coordination and/or physical performance is going to be bad for me! I'm a little uncoordinated, and even though I have a decent singing voice, performing in front of an audience (even an instructor) is nightmarish.

I'm good at math, physics, programming, and stuff that requires logic. I can also write well (in my native language, at the very least), but I can't apply language particularly well verbally. This was one of the factors that led to my diagnosis.

The poll results seem fairly consistent with the fact that 80% of everyone with AS also meet the requirements for NVLD as a comorbid diagnosis (I'm among the 20% who do not). The term non-verbal learning disorder is to a lesser extent a misnomer, as affected people typically have great language skills.

History and Reading were my strengths , and still are. I just really suck at math to the point that it's really frustrating and have to count with my fingers. Don't have any other strengths than those two, I was average in grades for the most part of school.

Good: Maths, English, Science, RS, Sociology
Decent: Technology, History, Geography, Business Studies, Art
Mediocre: Music, Film Studies
Bad: PE, Drama, Computer Studies

i feel i'm a total failure and grossly incompetent in any academic field...

Strengths: hands on shop stuff, writing fiction
Weakness: everything else

I scraped a 2.01 GPA in high school and I dropped out of college- last GPA was 1.57. but alot of it had to do with my difficulties adjusting to a new learning style and environment. and unknown at the time, my in/out depression. So clearly academics are not my strong point. I really did try, but I sorta already knew academically i'm a disaster, a total f**k up, so it really didn't bother me much.

I actually did not know I'm a good fiction writer until recently when I started keeping a journal about my depression since i had memory problems and i guess i wrote alot of fantasies in it and i showed it to my therapist, she said the fantasy portion read like a good novel... sure it's composition needed work (I somehow passed high school without taking a single high-school level composition class) but it's content is great. I checked with my brother who isn't an academic failure and he agreed. then i looked over my own work and i was amazed. I never knew, i always thought my writing was awful given my awful grades.

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