Never did well in school.

I managed to get Cs in English and maths after resitting 

School life was a total nightmare for me.

Academically is was up and down like a yo-yo.

Socially it was down in the gutter.

I changed school several times, I refused to go to school many times.  I stayed off school for weeks and months at a time.  I got thrown out of two schools.

I got my O and A levels, although they were nowhere near good enough.  I should have done better.

I was very good at Maths and that caused problems.

I joined a middle school, a couple of months into the year. At that school pupils were streamed by past exam performance.  As a newcomer I was placed in the bottom maths stream.  At the end of year exam I was top of the class and I was promoted to the middle Maths stream.  The boy who came second in the exam went ballistic because he wasn't promoted.  Up to then he had been quite friendly, after that he never spoke to me again.

The situation in the middle Maths stream was almost a repeat.  After a month or so, we were tested and again I came top and I was promoted to the top Maths stream.  The girl who came second went berserk and accused me of stealing her rightful place in the top Maths class.

Politics and jealousy, even in a middle school!

Yeah same here, I was the tallest in my year, 

Yeh anything different, i had long hair and was six foot so stood out,

Yeah, some people do get it bad Like I remember at high school there was a lot of bullying going on and the teachers knew about it and didn't do anything about it. I was bullied for having long hair, not liking football and liking a different kind of music to everyone else.

I liked primary school the teachers knew us all and i felt they cared ,I was very difficult but they put the effort in ,about 10 years later my headmaster recognized me walking through Bath and stopped to talk to me .

Secondary school was a nightmare ,the first 2 years where a waste of time learnt nothing, just went over what i had learnt in infants , third year truanted mon , tues, thurs, friday,.Took the school 8 weeks to ask my parents why ?. Last 2 years i went but just kept my head down and sat at the back . Bullyed all the way through hated it ,couldn't make friends even some of the teachers bullyed me . Mainly verbal [ 20 people laughing and jeering at you is no fun] a bit of physical but not to much .The worst part was all the helpful advice like just be yourself or try to fit in or try to smarten yourself up. [Like i was in the wrong and some how deserved it] .

Looking back just very socially  awkward and a school of 2000+ students ,there where others who got it bad too.  If not worst

.I remember 1 boy braking down in tears and the teacher telling him to man up and stop being a girl, he climbed out of the window and ran away . I wonder what happened to him ,never saw him again ,i expect moved schools .That was wood work.

Got 10 o levels all grade c  and 1 AO level grade b in geology. Strangely found the exams really relaxing ,finished them quickly and fell asleep in 2 of them. Which kind of made sense when i read the bit on embracing asd ,about fear and stress in others make autistic people relax.  

I did okay in school. Exam results show me as an average student, school reports show me as someone who never tried hard enough (unless I particularly enjoyed the project/subject). ‍♂️

I don't really remember much about how I coped in primary school, aside from me being absolutely abysmal at maths - mainly anything involving mental arithmetic (I'm 37 and never fully memorised my times tables and often have to count on my fingers).

I definitely struggled more in high school. In my GCSE years I think I was the only student not in a remedial class that had to go to the supervised study sessions they put on for kids teachers thought might fail. I was allowed to drop one of my GCSEs (Business Studies) because I just wasn't getting it. 

I decided to stay on for Sixth Form, mainly due to anxiety about going to a different college and not knowing anybody, and eventually dropped two of my A levels subjects too because I couldn't keep up with them.

Somehow I have managed to keep my old school reports safe over the years, and reading through them recently it is kind of frustrating that nobody thought I might need more help than I got. I guess I can forgive them a little as my primary school years were like 1988 to 1994 so things weren't as understood then as they are now, and by the time I was at high school it was basically too late for anybody to notice my issues (especially since by then I'd learnt to keep them to myself out of fear of ridicule).

But anyway that's apparently my ramble for the day. lol

I was wasn't particularly good at English and French, I had to resit these.