I never did well in school (came close to failing out of high school), so I certainly don't fit the mold for "Aspie=perpetual student."
In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. For me, at least.
I believe many folks with AS are also poor/mediocre students, especially those with greater anxiety.
Well, I just finished the study part of my PhD program in economics (I'm 30) and only a thesis to go. Still, I'm planning to embark on another program. This time in math.
So how's that for a perpetual student?
Learning (interesting) stuff is easy and going to uni is a great way to procrastinate stepping into the real world.
Learning (interesting) stuff is easy and going to uni is a great way to procrastinate stepping into the real world.
Exactly!
I've thought of the perpetual college student as some kind of story or lottery fantasy.
I think I'd do it if I was suddenly rich.
At minimum I've thought that I'd be emotionally attractive to some college girl compared to the maturity typical of men half my age
I always say that if someone else would pay for it, I would spend the rest of my life in school. (Or if I could afford it myself, of course.)
I have three college degrees. I like to say that I am inbetween degrees, i.e. the next one is definitely in the future.
PhD in Autistic Studies? (like Women's Studies)
Many autistics are self-taught, too. Lifelong learning is my goal. Official or otherwise.
The only problem with auditing classes and reading books, sans the credential, is that you can't prove having done it, or if you can prove the audit, prove it to the satisfaction of some resume reader.
Somehow I am reminded of a quote from the movie Good Will Hunting, where Will is in the Harvard bar and the Harvard guy is acting all superior, and Will says he can get as good an education from the public library, (or something like that), and proves it too by defeating Mr. Ivy League in debate right then and there.
Studying is not a guarantee for something, but it can prove to be a chance. A university is meant to be an environment for learning, nothing more.
I miss university. (sigh)
At uni, my friends liked to talk about the same stuff as me.
All anyone I know now seems to talk about is skiing and tourism and the weather and what they ate for lunch yesterday... and stupid, boring things like that.
('scuse temporary moment of negativity.)
Why excuse negativity? It happens to be my calling card.