The most difficult and troublesome school subjects for students with ASD

Has the NAS carried out any research into what the most difficult and troublesome subjects are in secondary schools for students with ASD, and why?

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  • I was doing terribly in English until someone gave me a copy of the mark scheme used for GCSE. I immediately started getting As because it told me how to write the essay (point quote comment).

  • English language, literature and essay writing were the only subjects I found effortless at school! My bugbears were PE / Sports and anything requiring group work. 

  • "What do you think the author meant by this?"

    "Nothing at all, sir, it's just a story. Why can't you just accept that at face value? Why has there always got to be some sort of secret, hidden meaning? It's futile to ponder what the author might have meant, because unless he wrote his reasoning down, no one could possibly read his mind. And we can't ask him now, because he's dead..."