Did you graduate from college?

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I am curious who here graduated from college with a bachelors degree or higher. I am also curious who did this without any accommodations.

No, I came close though. I was having bad meltdowns regularly and my Misophonia was at its most heightened state and I just could not handle it. I did not know I was on the Spectrum and neither did anyone else so it was a particularly tough time.

Okay, I'll bite. I graduated from college with a B.A. in math, but then I had a mental and nervous breakdown; I lost all of my math memory past trigonometry! Then 10 years passed, and I forgot everything else. But I'm relearning it on my own (thank goodness I still have my textbooks), and I'm now up to almost halfway through Calculus 1. I will gain it back; but I still have a very long way to go. At this very moment, I am learning the second derivative test and concavity. Interesting stuff.

I made it through college without accommodations. It took me a very long time because I have a hard time multi-tasking. I avoiding going full-time at all costs, because I never could handle full-time college coursework. I basically gave myself my own accommodations based on what I knew about myself. If I had gotten an official diagnosis earlier, I might have gotten accommodations.

I graduated and have my B.A. I did have accommodations and I graduated just last year at age 27. Better late than never.

I finished a BA, added a teaching certification, dropped out of my first master's program but managed to finish a MA over about a 6 year period starting out part time, and later taking more classes.

None of it was easy. A lot of what I learned was how to balance what interested me with the things I did not find interesting.As much as possible, I tried to take versions of classes that did not interest me that were somehow connected with subjects that did interest me.

I lived in sweat suits too. Comfort physically helped me focus on learning.

Being off campus in an apartment also helped, as did knowing where on campus I could study where there would be few distractions.

I was always amazed by my fellow students who could be so caught up in social activities and still pass classes. I could not do that.

College graduated from me.

I graduated from a university (I guess it's the same as college) without accommodations. I made it a part-time activity, though, not attending all the courses and seminars. I had difficulties with oral tests and generally being in a less-predictable environment.

No college here.

Finished my B.A. and J.D. with no accommodations.

Of course, I'm mild on the spectrum and learned to cope with many things that should have derailed me (e.g., breaking projects into smaller tasks I could process and ordering them based on due dates...deliberately avoiding looking at the big picture).

In hindsight, I wish I dropped out of graduate school or never went.

Finished my BA after 13 years upon getting help with severe major depression but no dx/accommodation of A.S.

Went back for my MA in English and dropped out, couldn't write my thesis because i was so damned bored with the topic, uninspired to write on anything else.

Went back for an MA in Psych and graduated while working at the same time and raising three step-kids. No accommodations but man, it took a LOT out of me. Hence, to some extent, my middle-aged aspie burnout.

I graduated with a degree in Speech Pathology and English. I was offered accommodations by my clinical supervisor (speech pathology requires a clinical practicum, meaning I had to dispense therapy to clients under the supervision of a certified speech pathologist), but I refused.

There were times when accommodations would have been beneficial. It was expensive at my college to be a member of their special program for learning disabilities, which would have enabled me to make use of accommodations. However, I didn't feel the money was worth it, so I just did without accommodations. I did all right, graduating Magna cum laude.

For some reason, I became very anxious when I sat for the GRE; I walked out. I have taken a couple of graduate school courses in social work. I have to get over my anxiety, and take the GRE. The anxiety came about during the essay section.

I made it through University without failing a single course even though I had zero interest in business. I had a severe breakdown halfway through year 2 and I should have seen that as a sign I was on the wrong path. I just thought at the time "once I graduate and make the big bucks it will be worth it". Well as you can guess the promised big bucks never came!

I wanted to be a Construction worker and was laughed at for being delusional and to aim higher. Go figure the local construction program is FILLED with both men and women who graduated University and could not find work.

I graduated from college. My accommodation consisted of being allowed to take tests privately.

At 18, I left home to go to college (after all, that’s what I was expected to do). I quickly became quite depressed, dropped out and returned home.

While living at home, I attended a local university (essentially a commuter school) and graduated within 5 years. It was the perfect situation. As I attended college rather anonymously and made no lasting connections. I don’t remember a single person I attended college with. With that being said, I loved to learn things, especially about my areas of interests (computer information systems, economics, philosophy and astronomy).

About 5 years later, I attended a night-time, part-time graduate school program. I received my master’s within 4 years. Again, it was the perfect situation. As I attended school rather anonymously and made no lasting connections.