Do autistics generally have a hard time learning ed things?

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i am autistic and although i'm amazing at art and creative thinking, i fall way behind in math, history, technology and anything apropriate for a 6/7th grader. i feel better learning with k/1st grade stuff and at the most, 3/4th grade stuff and i like science (mainly biology and animals)

do other autistics have a hard time learning and/or keeping up with grade level?

Everyone has strengths and weaknesses.

I had fairly strong grades in art, history, science, psychology, tech, home ec,

My lowest grades were in math, English, French and social studies.

Gym class carries, when I was younger it was high but after high school I gave no f***s

I failed Anthropology in college twice.

I aced Multivariate Calculus though. And other math classes. And all of my engineering curriculum.

I succeeded as soon as I stopped taking advice from academic counselors. What they consider to be difficult is apparently really easy for (some) people with AS.

I did two IT certifications back to back in a span of 8 days. Normally each requires a month long training course. When the owner of the testing center saw my scores (he was pulling my test result out of the printer) he asked me how I studied. I told him I used a $30 book off Amazon and no training. He offered me an internship, but I turned it down because I didn't like the pay. That was years ago.

I'm not sure if I'm at that cognitive level these days though. It's been downhill lately.

I had a hard time in anything abstract. Nothing is direct from the textbook when you answer questions. Literature was hard to understand so it was hard to write a page about it. I did try a loophole once, my teacher wanted a page so I enlarged the fonts and made it a page and turned it in. My English teacher laughed and told me this wasn't a page and they are just large fonts but nice try. My aide thought it was funny too. I also never did math because it was too abstract for me. Only thing I excelled in was Spanish because it was all memorization and it was very concrete but I didn't do so good in it in college because it was more abstract and it also involved history in it and I have a hard time learning anything I have no interest in. I was only interested in the language. I did fine in art too because it's all concrete, you just do what the teacher gives you to do and there are no written assignments and in choir I also did fine because it's all singing and PE, just sports so all you need to do is participate. I did fine in drama too, it was just memorizing your lines and the only thing I had trouble in was group work because I didn't know who to do in them and no one gave me any direction or a task except collecting branches. So my grade was low.

I loved and excelled in the sciences and math department. I was on path to be an engineer or math teacher. I took a left turn at an Abnormal Psychology class.

Though I like to doodle and excell at the comedy theatrical arts I didn't do so good in art classes.

If an academic subject is not at least somewhat related to a "special interest," autistic people might have trouble doing well in it

This is not universal, though. It is not definite that autistic people will do bad academically at all.

There are autistic people who do well in EVERYTHING. Their "deficiencies" only involve the "social realm."

mine was english, i got a huge amount of help and on the second try got a B in it, but before that on the first try i mainly failed because we had to do a speaking and listening segment and well....i can't speak in front of people like that. oh and my coursework was horrible apparently, the stories that we had to wright apparently didn't make sense or flow right.

i got huge amounts of guidance from a personal Teaching assistant and in the end kinda made it, it was that and history, did badly in history too

No, I myself tend to excel in academics; especially in history, other liberal arts, and mathematics.

I was very good in language, creative writing, music, history, acting, reading, and biology. I was rubbish in maths, and chemistry.

I was diagnosed long after secondary and college. I entered college at 17, back in the early 70's.
It seems like even NT's sometimes excell in either math/science or English/Language Arts.

Theater in college (starting on sound & props) helped me socially). So did working in improvisation groups. Yes I was more comfortable on stage than off.

I excelled in art and I was average in everything else.

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I can memorize information very fast. I have gone through and learned a month of math material in an hour and retained it just fine, and I only had to do that because I have trouble paying attention in class because in my opinion everything is too slow. I have problems with focus though (thanks to my ADD) so I can't easily prove that I know what I do. I can muster the willpower to do something important like a test but it's very draining and there is no way that I could manage doing something like that every day in every class.

Well I do, pretty much the same as you. Seems a good number of the kids in my school, which is for asd, have learning difficulties.

It's difficult being smart, but not being able to do most schoolwork beyond a certain level, which in my case also is around 3/4th grade. Doing fractions and anything beyond that is beyond my ability. Even though I excel in writing skills, I don't do so good in English. Technology? No way. I like History a lot, but am really bad at memorizing names and dates.

I actually tried a mainstream school my first semester of 7th grade, and even with special ed they had there, I totally bombed out.

Oh man I love history, I remembered specific dates or vague dates. Like I know the Spanish flu outbreak began in 1919. I know German invaded Poland on September 9th 1939 but I might be wrong. I remember dates better when it's associated with a picture, same with names. Like on e of the leading doctors researching cholera was Jon Snow. The inventor of the cotton Jin was ellias Whitney.

EDIT: nope lol it was the September 1st, maybe I'm not as good with dates as I though haha.

Teaching techniques are also not geared toward autistic people. Or people of color. Or females. Which is a good part of why minorities have a harder time in group environments like schools, but do better in specialized environments that are tailored for them.

There's a pilot program here in my city where the regular high school has students on the autism spectrum in a class together being taught by a teacher with an autism educational certificate. It just started but I'm interested to see how the program works out.

My husband was in a similar program that accidentally had mostly autistic kids in it. It was a Gifted and Talented program that separated out all the kids that were a distraction to the regular students. They taught them at an advanced level but let them keep going to their regular school district.

When I first began school, I had learning delays from prematurity.