Just want to add that this is my process as an autistic person as well https://twitter.com/McKelvie/status/1360176991450841092

I always sympathise with my students when they say they can only work just before the deadline

That was my entire time at university

A lot of my time supporting students is spent trying to help them manage their time. This often involves getting them to unlearn certain things e.g. "I'm slower at this than other people", "I can't do any work until the week before" etc

I try to rephrase it as "this is the time it takes you" or "this is how you work best", so we can then go, "ok, so what does this mean for how you study?"

There are some tricks to reading and taking notes a bit quicker, but ultimately it's more about finding what works for them

E.g.

Planners on their own can have limited use. But using them to set mini-deadlines? Combining them with 10 mins reflection at the end of the day of what needs to be moved around? Much more effective

But it still won't work for everyone because not everyone works the same way

Having realistic expectations of how your work best and accepting that this is how you work are very difficult things to do if you've been told all your life you don't do things like other people and that this is a bad thing

If someone had said to me at uni "so you can only write anything three days before hand-in: what can you do instead in the 2 weeks beforehand?", I'd have been able to study better, and not sink into a self-flagellating depression about how I was failing at being like other people