Were you behind in school or ahead?

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I was ahead in primary school, but behind during my teenage years at a local grammar school. Irrespective of the condition's symptomatic social difficulties, I was peculiarly quite popular in secondary school. But, admittedly, I did have to make a complete spectacle of myself to be appreciated by my peers. During this period virtually all of my attention would be on how to entertain and amuse those around me, which could help explain why my grades were so dreadfully poor.

It was the transition from adolescence to adulthood when my problems really rose to surface.

If only I had been diagnosed earlier....

I was ahead in everything except languages in the sciences stream. I did German, French and Latin and got really bad scores. I got asked to go to the US as I learned computer languages really fast. I learned OO programming in 2 weeks; a professor in the States said that was impossible but I ended up teaching it so I obviously wasn't too bad.
I am in a country that speaks Spanish and people think that I am a ret*d as I have been here so long and speak so little.

I was held back in kindergarten, then almost again in 3rd grade where the environment was totally hostile ("open area", hostile teachers, other students...) to me so i lost all motivation to do anything.. The administration then made a compromise from my hostile teacher to attend special ed at a different school, one that did not have an "open area". Except that class was meant to students with behavioral problems (aka the troublemakers) so the students saw my as an easy convenient target. So i was still struggling there too and was again made a scapegoat in that and mainstreaming classes. But i was still able to to do well in math, near failing in language/reading and physical education classes and mediocre in other classes.

Wasn't until 9th grade where they figured out that arrangement was inappropriate for me and did better in math and science classes, plus a bit better in other classes.

I was always behind in school, but there seemed to be always moments, that teachers talked to my parents about me being intelligent enough to be able to perform at school.
To me school memory is a big blur, I could not comprehend what was going on and lots of anxieties.
I was too much in my own mind and had no real concepts of what was going on, at that time people were just objects to me and I had a hard time understanding.
I was not put in special ed in the sence of a special school as that did only exist for people with severe intellectual disability or another form of school for people with criminal challenging behaviour, both I did not display.
But I was put into special ed courses, so being taken away from class for a couple hours but I still did not understand what was going on.
All my years in school I relied on a sort of photographic memory, I repeated writing things down always again and then I memorized exactly how the sheet of paper looked like, but no real understanding of the matter.
But somehow I could finish sort of high-school, but from then on I never succeeded in any education anymore, demands were going up, also being able to work in a group, which I had no concept about.
About age 15 I developed some autodidactic way of learning, which started with languages, and best I learn autodidactic.
I did not under stand the ways people wanted to bring information to me.

I was ahead in school, school was what I was good at and easy for me.

I was never good at school, teachers hated me, spent most lunch/break hours in an isolated computer room doodling on paint or playing flash games, the SEN assistants were pretty much the force field protecting me from the outside world, like bodyguards if you will. The only physical violence I would have received would be on the bus ride to and from school, when attempting to ignore bullies it would just never end, therefore I dreaded going to school every morning.

My parents never helped with homework, they overestimated my abilities of understanding what had to be done - coupled with the fact that I find it really difficult to ask for help, its like a sub-routine in my brain thats in charge of what decision I should make and I can't make the choice and I draw a blank.

I was always put in the lower set every year, and in my school the lowest sets always got a temp/supply teacher, to give the higher sets a better chance at education. Ironically, even though I ended up with bad grades from the low sets, i've known some people to get jobs with more prospects than I have and they were usually the bullies or the lowest achievers which makes no sense. The disruptive people in class always got high grades for some reason and the resulting disruption gave me low grades. Thats the sort of discipline low sets gets you.

I was chronically behind in my homework, yet scored ahead of the curve on all of my exams.

It's hard to get homework done in a house run by a dictatorial alcoholic.

I didn't vote because there was not one for subject specific. When it came to S.T.E.M. base subjects. I was far ahead in school of everyone else. As far as everything else goes. I was far behind. But the real problem I had in school was dealing with the bullying and all the distractions of being in a classroom. I just don't see how anybody can study in a room full of people.

Years ahead of my peers in english from 5th grade all the way up to 12th. Highest possible grades without doing much studying at all.

Managed to get an A in history through enthusiasm and BS...

Fell behind in math around 7th grade, and just barely recovered by end of 9th grade, at which time my special math group was actually ahead of the regular class in the math book.
Graduated 12th grade with two semesters worth of math short of being able to pursue the biology degree I'm still sort of pining for. Might fix that some day. Also, failed physics as a consequence of failing math. Better at understanding the concepts than doing the calculations. Also, had same teacher in both math and physics, a woman who understood neither.

Despite failing math and physics, pretty good grades in other sciences. Got praise from chemistry teacher for "not being afraid of the chemicals", and pretty much able to out-biology the biology teacher, even if I still find microbiology to be messy and confusing.

I was quite behind, but would have been more behind if it wasn't for the teacher's assistant who aided me in classes.

I wasn't ahead in anything, but was average with work that involved creativity, like art and writing stories. I even did OK in groups when doing drama, art or music. It was because I enjoyed it. But I wasn't cleverer than the others at the things I enjoyed. I was just at the same level as the others.

I struggled with maths because it was always too complicated and my mind would just wonder - until the teacher came and yelled at me for not finishing my work, which always upset me because I wasn't being naughty, I just had trouble focusing.

Science was interesting at primary school. The teacher would just verbally tell us all about the universe and other science stuff, and all the class was interested. Then we got into groups and did fun experiments and made science-related artwork, which was fun. But when it came to written work in science, that's when I found it difficult.

We started having a computer room at school in 1998, when I was 8 years old, and so when we went to the computer room to learn how to input data on computers and stuff like that, but I seemed to be the slowest in the class to learn how to use a computer. It was because during the computer lessons I would muck around and play with whatever I could find, because I found computers boring at the time.

I loved indoor PE, but outdoor PE I didn't like so much. Outdoor PE seemed to involve more team games, and I always got anxious in team games because some of the kids (mostly the boys) took team games seriously, and got angry if you let the team down. Indoor PE was a lot more fun. I loved swimming too, although I had trouble swimming because I couldn't get my nose or ears under the water, but I still loved swimming because it was in water....and water was fun to be in.

Quite ahead, to the level where by 6th grade I had started 8th grade English and science.

I was good a art (drawing/painting), I was drawing in perspective from age 3 on.
I was also good at reading music (notes).
I have dyscalculia and got deliberated from math.

I was way ahead of most kids all throughout my school years. I was always in advance placement classes and usually bored. I'm an information sponge and I seem to learn best through reading so I would just read the textbook within the first week of school, do my homework in class, and read a book I brought with me once I was done.

I have a natural talent for mathematics, but because of that it really started to bore me and I ended up focusing on English and writing during school because it was more challenging, because I developed that talent too such a degree in high school once I went to college I was just able to pump out pretty dense papers with minimal work, but it took a lot of work to build up that skill. That said my natural talents with my concentration on writing and language skills just combined well for an academic career.

I have always been in private schooling geared mainly for autistic kids and am an average to somewhat above average student in that setting.

In the 8th grade when I was 13 I tried mainstream school along with some standard special ed they had, failed miserably, and had to redo the 8th grade back in private school.

Growing up I was very advanced in science, math and history classes compared to my peers and was hated by them because of it. However, I was constantly behind in language classes (English, Spanish, French) almost the entire time, with the exception of reading ability (college reading level in grade school).

When starting school, I was very slow.