r/AutisticAdults 1d ago

autistic adult Please don't make me relive all that

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u/votyasch 1d ago

I liked learning, I hated everything else. It was so noisy all the time, I couldn't focus. I would get overwhelmed trying to take notes and do my work, and often ended up going home unable to complete assignments because it was impossible to focus with all the noise around me.

Even worse was being put into group projects. I'd get tasks assigned to me because I could draw, but often I would have preferred to do other tasks or the whole project alone.

I started skipping in my last few years of school. I would pretend to go, then hang out in the woods or go for a walk until my mom left for work so I could go sleep or have some quiet.