I Just Can't Do This!

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I'm having a massve self-hating fest right now. AHH!! ! I can't do homework.

All my life, I've had issues with homework, it really is pointless most of the time. I've always had a parent behind me screaming to get it done. Why, so I can prove that it took me two seconds to understand something? And throughout highschool, my mom has slowly given up on getting me to do my homework. No matter waht the incentive, I just can't bring myself to do it. It's really aggrevating!! ! I tried doing homework for the first time in a long time tonight, and couldn't. Why? Because I'd be rewriting alomst all the notes I took in class. I'm not doing that, my mind won't let me waste my life away doing such a pointless chore. I understand, is that not enough? I'm really close to flunking out, and I really don't want to. But what hope do I have if I'm mentally incapable of doing most homework? I just get pissed off at the world because of something so seemingly simple. I want to do it, but it's so self aggrevating that I can't. I jsut want to tear the book into pieces and scream. I learn nothing by rewriting my notes. I jusrt learn that my handwriting is hard to read, but I've already learned that. And don't give that bullshi* that rewriting something reinforces it. It does if you're focusing, something I'm not when doing homework. DAMNIT WHY AM I CRYING?! !?!?!?!?! !?!?! It's something so simple, why can't I do it? I really don't want to fail highschool, but no one has ever understood. Half the shi* my personality is naturally is branded as laziness. No one ever understands what my f-ing problem is!! ! Their idiot minds just don't get it. It's not lazines!! ! It's my mind working against it's damn self!! !

God I hate depression.

I had problems doing homework too. I only did the assignments worth the most points to pass the class. My parent's weren't too pushy about the homework thing for reasons I still don't know. Luckily, I was also able to keep them from knowing just how much homework I relly had as well.

I still have this problem in college (at 33) I did fail one class and wasted a lot of money. I wish I had some answers but homework is often stupid but a necessary evil

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Aren't you even allowed to type it?

I hated homework as well. I was supposed to do it in school, but I didn't. I would take the tests and often I'd pass those tests with perfect scores. I think homework is kinda pointless for aspies...

It's pointless for intelligent people, and that's only because at school level they move through a subject so slowly and repeat things so often that you only need to do a fraction of the work to master it.

If you have THAT big of a problem then get someone to tutor you.

I know what you mean. I only do homework for certain classes, right now only AP chem and a little of English, really. It is kind of annoying how teachers expect us to do pointless homework and turn it in for a grade. It might help if you type your notes up because then you can probably at least read them. That's what I do and it has helped some.

I used to like doing homework in non standard ways, that way I was researching what I wanted to know and giving huge answers as a by-product. I don't know what you study, and depression isn't one of the best study aids I've come across but I'm sure you can bore your teachers to the point of asking if you have any questions before they ask you to produce an essay in response to a simple question. Good luck.

I was always bad about doing homework, from high school on up. I wanted to read what I wanted to read, and not as assignment someone else gave me, so I hid my homework from my parents. This meant that I did well in classes that interested me, but very poorly in most classes. The problem continued right through college. I was perfectly capable of doing the work, but couldn't bring myself to.

The suggestions to find other modalities of doing your work are good ones. Do you have teachers who are bright enough to appreciate the problem and could work with you?

I find that i have a hard time getting started, but once i begin and find my interest in it i cannot let it go and will work on it forever all night long. I think i have focus issue's. Its hard to get into it but once there its hard to walk away...........

Yeah I know how you feel last year I couldnt bring myself to read alot of the books in my reading/writing class (I was hoping it would be more about writing going into it) and my grade went downhill. But then again some of the books we were asked to read I dont think I could have understood anyway (like Dante's Inferno... way too much symbolism/old english text there). Heck same thing with my last 2 high school english classes (though with both of those it was because the teachers were ultrafeminist and there book selections went alone with it; ie Pride and Predjudice, Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre, etc.) Hope you figure out something that works for you.

I had trouble doing homework, but I wouldn't say it was because I thought it was "pointless" or because I knew it already. In fact, I usually enjoyed my homework more when it was something that came easily for me - it would give me a sense of victory, a sense that I'm MASTERING this homework. It's the homework that was more difficult and/or less interesting for me that I had trouble with.

Schools exist to perpetuate tedium. As long as this system exists, we must abide its senselessness. I went to my French literature class today tired and bored. I wasn't in a very receptive mood for learning. Oh well, I still went and listened to the professor explain each stanza of La chanson de Roland as students read them out loud.

I'm really wondering whether school doesn't exist to promote apathy and a dulling of thought and the senses.

i had the highest history test avrage in my class last year. 100%. i got a 70 for the year because of homework not being done

Well as Nash from a beuatiful mind said " Classes will dull you're mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity."