I always did well in English class up until high school. The creative writing assignments and persuasive essays were always my strongsuit. The ones I hated most were "Tell about an event in your life and explain why it helped you learn a lesson/why it changed something/how it relates to this or that". I always had to make something up. For some reason the other kids didn't seem to have a greater problem choosing a topic for those essays than any other essay, but I don't see why...how many life-changing events that result in a greater level of self-awareness do children have? Research projects were the WORST, and I always procrastinated those hardcore.
Some of you can probably relate to this: 50% of teachers loved my writing style and always gave me A's, 50% of teachers HATED it. I just joined up here to find that everybody has a similar writing style to me, and now I see why it's annoying to some. Countless paragraphs of wordy, disjointed analyzation that never reach a point or conclusion. Up until high school I was told that my writing was phenomenal, then I started getting red marks everywhere saying "not enough information, poor transitions, no topic sentence" and they forced me to make my writing very structured....even though almost nothing you read is that structured.
Oh, and before English class got serious, I aced just about every spelling and vocabulary test. That was nice. I even got 7th place in the state spelling bee, beating out some other kids who, looking back, probably had Asperger's as well.
On a side note, I also noticed that some of the best teachers I've had were male English teachers, and female English teachers were uncreative and boring. My most memorable math teachers were female but none really stood out because it's hard to get creative with teaching math.