Are/were you intelligent at school?

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No, I was not an intelligent kid at school at all. I never felt more intelligent than the other kids either. I was either average or behind. I was average in creative things like art and was quite good at spelling, but things like math, science, technology and all that sort of stuff I fell behind, and so was put in the special ed group. The other kids in the special ed group had things like learning difficulties (like Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, ADHD, those sort of things), and I felt comfortable when I was learning at the same pace as them.

At High school there was a girl in my class who was really, really intelligent. She always hung out in the library reading or studying, and was brilliant in every subject and did not require any help at all. She was like Lisa Simpson intelligent. I always thought she was NT like all the others, but thinking back, I think she might have been on the spectrum, and very gifted. The older she got, the more she didn't socialise with anybody in our class, and just went off to study on her own. That might not mean Asperger's, because it's so hard for me to tell when a girl is on the spectrum, but she did have some odd ways too. I wish I had become friends with her (she did want to hang around with me for a bit), but I wasn't into reading and studying in libraries. I preferred hanging out with this girl who hung out in the toilets gossiping and putting make-up on (although I was never really into make-up but I still put some on when I was with her), and we used to sometimes sneak out of school to avoid doing boring lessons that meant nothing to us, like religious studies.

I have dyslexia, ADD/ADHD & a low vision disorder that wasn't diagnosed till my senior year of high-school. I only passed some classes because my grades were curved.

Almost all my teachers said this: "He has so much potential, too bad he never uses it." Or he's extremely intelligent, but never applies himself to his work."

I was so lazy with maths and everything, C almost in every matter, but A+ on arts, literature...

Mostly intelligent. Aced a couple sections of the ACT.
Oddly, I am least skilled at math, the subject at which most aspies seem to excel.
I would have had a 4.0 if not for math.

Don't know but I left school at 14, gained no qualifications at all, and then went on to study at University. I'm now a very skilled programmer with a high IQ. Quitting school was the best thing I ever did.

This is how I pretty much did in school:

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I voted for 'intelligent'. Wasn't a child prodigy or anything, but I was fairly successful academically at school. My best subjects were English and Art; aced both of those for GCSE, even though I didn't submit half the coursework for Art. My weakest subject was probably maths. I wasn't terrible at it, but not good enough to make the top set. There were 11 sets (if memory serves) in our year, and only the top two sets could do the advanced GCSE maths paper, i.e. get an A or a B. I made a comfortable C, but could not have got a B or A even if I'd got 100%.

Oddly enough, my dad was a mathematical prodigy. He didn't pass down his maths skills to any of his 4 children or 2 grandchildren. I think if I'd been taught in the right way, I could have been better at maths. Never a genius at it, but could've picked up algebra, calculus, etc. Later on, in my 20s my dad tutored me for a while (I had decided to try science.....), and I did learn some of the stuff I had missed at school, e.g. algebra.

Well, I got all 80%s and 90%s throughout high school while not being there half the time. I was at school maybe 40% of the time due to being stressed. I didn't study for tests either. I'm not bragging or anything it's just how it was for me.

Sorry forgot to put more options in the poll, but at the moment I made it I was only thinking about to find out how most people on the spectrum do at school

I was intelligent in school.

I did well in terms of grades, but I'm not certain that this has to do with intelligence so much. In recent years, I've proven to be fairly poor at scraping a life for myself as an adult. I get by, but just barely. I feel like a dolt most of the time.

Math and science = genius prodigy.
everything else = stupid ret*d.
Nuff said.

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i guess i was and am very poor at school

I disliked school. Most kids viewed me as stupid because I did not talk much and my grades were low. I was placed in special education classes in 9th grade. My IQ test however says I'm gifted.