Aspies For Freedom

I'm still in 8th grade, but I can be pretty sure about these:
Best-History, English/Literature
Worst-Algebra, most forms of Science, Spanish

Best:  all maths and sciences, history, music

worst:  physical education, geography, English literature

Best - History
Worst - English literature, Maths

Best: Office Applications (a bit like IT, but you only learn common software used in offices).  Also French.

Worst: PE and any kind of sport.

Best-English, Marketing
Worst-Math and Science classes (Except Biology)

Best: Statistics
Worst: English

I found there was too much writing involved in my English lessons for my liking.

Best: English, history
Worst: Math and Chemistry

Best: Business Studies (IT is boring as hell)
Worst: PE (seems to be a consensus!)

Tom

Worst: Absolutely everything!

Best: Maths, Physics, Chemistry.
Worst: French, Irish, Biology, English.

Best: Art, Modern History, English, Economics.
Worst: Maths 1 and Physical Education.

I could never see the sense in running around in the sun when it would have been so much more fun sitting in the shade and reading a book or drawing a picture. Even doing Maths problems would have been better than doing PE.

Best:  Maths (I sometimes used to come top of the year in exams and when the teacher asked a question in class he would say "*EnglishLulu* and Golding [a boy in my class] need not answer this question", because he knew me and this boy always got the answers right.  I also used to come top of the year sometimes in physics, biology, chemistry and french.  

My french teacher called my parents into school one year after I scored 98% in the end of year exam and referred them to the National Association for Gifted Children.  I think sometimes there's confusion and misunderstanding about language skills and people on the spectrum, because there seems to be an understanding that 'communication problems' mean we must be bad at languages, but my problems relate more to delayed/missing emotional and social and non-verbal communication skills than language skills.  I'm kind of hyperlexic and was good at French because of the patterns in conjugating verbs, I recognise and like patterns.

Worst:  PE (well, athletics and tennis actually, I was good at hockey and swimming) and also music - I so wish I had musical talent/ability.

I sucked at English although I never really figured out why. I would spend ages making 'perfect' essays and reports, only to have them marked quite low. I never really understood how people found so many layers of meaning to a given text, and I never have really been able to get my head around how doing so would prove useful. A poem is a poem is a poem to me, and it's never been easy or interesting for me to try and deconstruct something to the point where you can argue that there is meaning where there is none.

My best subjects were science subjects; chemistry and biology.

Hi Nan. :smile: