Hey guys as above, in my case i was very good in school, got great results and then at age 19 i got schizophrenia, then everyting went badly wrong, fast foward to today im doing well, i have a part time job in a bookshop, have my own apartment ect, thoughts?
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My grades were lousy my last two years of high school. I can blame it on drugs and cutting class excessively. I barely graduated.
I got schizophrenia when I was 19 and enrolled myself in college 5 years later. I have been plugging along ever since taking one or two classes at a time but with years in between.
My grades have been a mixed bag. I’ve gotten A’s but also failed courses too. I started online courses 7 years ago, taking one class at a time. I discovered that I am a good writer and it comes in handy. I can handle writing essays and short papers.
These past 7 years I’ve failed several classes; not because the work is too hard but I’m a terrible procrastinator. Vistually every class I failed was because once I’m on the computer I have to surf other sites before doing my homework and I’m almost addicted to it. I’ve been going along in a class getting good grades on my work only to fail it in the last few weeks because I’ll spend a few hours on the internet instead of turning in papers.
In almost virtually every class I take it’s the same thing: once I sit down and start the actual work, I do great. I can handle the work, it’s just I put off doing it until it’s too late.
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I was an average to mediocre pupil. My parents had used a testing method, doing the rounds in mid 1960s San Francisco ,which rated my intelligence as very high(I only found this out a month ago), but that wasn’t reflected by my academic performance. It can be said that I was a typical underachiever.
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My grades went down in university after my first psychosis. I got Drs notes to skip exams etc Took me 8 years to finish my physiotherapy major, usually its 3 years. My grades didn’t allow me to specialize like in rehab or athletic therapy etc or do a master.
Now I have my degree but can’t work or volunteer at all 
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I started off high school in honors classes but by the time i graduated i was barely passing regular classes. I think it’s a combination of my sza in its early stages and plain old laziness. I aced the tests but i didn’t do the homework, which screwed me grade-wise.
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I feel that sz made me a bit intellectually disabled honestly.
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I did well in both. Then I started to think everyone was out to get me and quit college. They said if I payback my debt at 500 that I could come back to college and they would pay off the rest.
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I did very well in high school - came 17th in my class of 2002
But then within a few months sza struck hard and I never went to college
Since then I’ve hardly been able to finish a course as I lose interest in it due to my avolition
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Yes I was 2nd in my class in high school, then I had to drop out because of severe anxiety and low weight, after a few years my cognitive abilities declined.
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GCSEs came pretty easy to me, Not straight As but a majority
Then drugs quickly followed by schizophrenia took my grades right down
Was thrown out then got basic grades for 2 a levels
After that my cognitive difficulties have been too bad for any real progress in any of the courses I did
Scraped through a few first year qualifications, but that sometimes lead me to hospital from stress
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I left high school with no qualifications. I had an episode when I was 17, and then after that I was stable for a few years and thought I’d give education a try again.
Graduated a top 20 UK University with a 2:1 in History and Sociology (3.67GPA for US folks)
Was a miracle I did this as I was psychotic for my last half of the degree, but still managed to fight through it.
No regrets.
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I did well in high school but my grades went to ■■■■ in college.
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I went to school from 1961-1975 when there was no recognition,and therefore no help and support, for children and teenagers who would nowadays be regarded as 2e…
Memories of being bullied was a partial reason for not going to college along with the non recognition of learning difficulties.
Apart from here I’ve had my best treatment,outside of family/stepfamily, from members of high IQ societies. I’ve been open about my mental health problems and not been rejected.
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I did well until my mental health deteriorated. I tried college and did very well, but at the time i had internet that was meyered so I couldn’t watch videos or presentations. Had to drop out.
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I did very well in college. Nearly had a 4.0 gpa in accounting but sza got
In the way right after graduation.
Now I’m thinking about pursuing welding. I realized I can’t sit in a chair all day. Need to move around a bit.
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I did well in high school but my grades started dropping in college because of my symptoms.
I had to quit.
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I did very well all through school and college. I was even in a math class where I was the only student in 7th grade, and in a 5 pupil class in 10th. I was classified as gifted or talented.
I am not confident these days. I probably would fail any coursework now.
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My high school gpa was 3.33. Would’ve been 3.5 had I not failed calculus. In junior college, my gpa was the same, 3.33. After transferring to uni, my gpa declined to 2.56.
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i got an honor’s degree in electrical engineering, and honors degree in environmental science, and a doctorate. i then quickly devolved into schizophrenia soon after. but yeah as far as the actual schooling, i just barely got er done and did a good job before devastation hit me.
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I did well but had a hard time conforming in college and university. Had my scholarships taken away and got kicked out.
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