Classmates in college aggravate me?

I go to an art college, studying 2D animation. I LOVE learning about animation, and I LOVE school. But, I can only take so much stimulation at a time. When I'm learning something, I use a lot of brainpower, and my stimulation levels go up. I can only handle a little bit extra stimulation when I'm learning. But, my classmates are all like TODDLERS. They're noisy, always distracting with their extreme 'fan'ning over anime shows (like the weird over obsessed fanning), they make excuses for why they didn't do homework (though they admit to each other than they spend the whole weekend either drinking or looking through Tumblr for anime stuff to obsess over), and they don't seem to really care. I've said MANY times that I have noise issues, but they continually get noisy. I've had to get noise-blocking headphones to block out the sounds when it's work-time.

Not all the students are always like that, but so often, it gets hard to concentrate. And, with all that, I get agitated. And, when I get agitated, I get DEPRESSED. And, when I'm depressed, I get REALLY discouraged. I've been tempted a LOT, this last semester, to just quit school. But, I keep going. I WANT to do this schooling, but it's so HARD when I have these classmates that keep getting me frustrated. There's not a heck of a lot my teachers can do. They'd be CONSTANTLY telling them to quiet down. They're the type to go 'Oh, sorry we were loud. We were just..." And then continue the conversation with both reason as to WHY they were talking so loud AND continuing their subject from before.

...yeah. It's hard, because I have Autism. I'm have high-functioning Autism/Aspergers. It's common for people with Aspergers or high-functioning Autism to get discouraged in school. I read this article, and it made a LOT of sense to me.

My Aspergers Child: The Easily Discouraged Asperger?s Student: Tips for Parents and Teachers

But, the thing is, a lot of that advice is to the parent or teacher. What does the STUDENT do!? What advice do you guys have for dealing with this and keeping myself UN-discouraged? I want to graduate so BAD in this field, as I can get a job right away in it where I live, but at this rate, I'm going to feel ready to murder every computer program that has to do with animation and destroy every computer with these programs on it if I have to keep going as is. It's just so...HARD.

ANY advice to help me out is appreciated. I really want advice I can follow, not just encouragement, if I can get it. I get LOTS of encouragement from my husband, my parents, and my teachers. What I need, though, are solutions.

Thanks!

That is a good question you pose. Here is an article on Psych Central. There are others you can search for in the upper right search box

psychcentral.com/lib/book-review-cognitive...asperger.../0002204