Anyone else dropped out from high school?

Just to Inform you that we have had a lot of trolls on here lately, No one will tend to comment back to you unless you change your username and add into you bio that you have autism or care for someone on the spectrum.

I dropped out of school too and I also have adhd I feel the same way

I stayed on at high school for 2 years, went to college for 1 year then to university for 5 years and got a masters degree in engineering. Shortly after graduation and beginning my career I was wrongfully prosecuted by the corrupt criminal justice system for standing up for myself against someone who wouldn't leave me alone by offending them on social media.

Since the criminal record I have opted out of the system and refuse to work or pay a penny in tax ever again. I have been on the dole ever since then and will always find ways to get out of having to work so you could say I don't have much direction in life regardless of the 8 years extra education

Hmm interesting, I will look into a needs assessment. Thank you for the tip. I hope the help you get turns out to be useful for you.

I wouldn't be into some of those suggestions, I have different interests but I get the point you're making. 

You bring up some really good points there. It would really help if there were courses taught specially for attention deficit people.

The short courses are a good idea. I'm going to investigate them. 

I didn't know about the Initial Teaching Alphabet you mentioned, sounds like it was a fad that wasn't that useful!

You advise is spot but the issue with ADHD and attention span is nightmare.

It’s not that we don’t want to learn it’s that I brain doesn’t want to concentrate on activities that don’t bring us pleasure and their is always going to be tasks that don’t bring us pleasure within areas we enjoy.

Without the natural dopamine kick we get when we doing something we enjoy the information just doesn’t get processed and stored in are our brains which makes us frustrated as we know the routine of starting something and failing which makes motivation difficult.

if our brains are not producing dopamine we instinctively and disruptively will do anything that brings us pleasure to get are brain producing dopamine which causes impulsively problems. 

Their is ways around dopamine issues that involve learning to do a high dopamine task followed by one or two low dopamine tasks but switch from high dopamine hyper focused to another task is difficult and most typical classrooms do not accommodate that need.

Any education we decide to we will need extra support to help us switching from one task to another when we are in hyper focus or someone to actively reminded us to stay on task. The education system doesn’t seem to teach you these skills in high school and expect colleges and sixth form to teach learners to coping strategies and independent learning skills. 

Have you ever thought of applying for a needs assessment through your local authority.

anyone can request a need assessment and the local authority have a legal obligation to one out if requested.  

it may result in social intervention that can assist you in applying for benefits, support in finding suitable housing, extra support and employment support.

it can even result in help with getting you back into education through grants and funding schemes that may entitle you to attend college and fund extra support in college. 

Roswell I am twenty four and awaiting an ADHD assessment that the professional who diagnosed me with autism requested and I completely understand where you coming from. You want to do something but you have no clue if your capable of doing it without breaking down and have no idea where to start.

I have had a need assessment and the outcome has been semi positive and I am finally getting the advice and support I need to become independent. I think most people who come from stable backgrounds take for granted the advise, encourage and support their parents give them when they hit adulthood. 

Plastic advice on this forum is always encouraging and supportive, I would take his advice, he seems to be the great sage of autism.

your high school sounds like a nightmare, so you're probably better off now... i'd encourage you to try out different interests... anything... just what grabs your fancy. try it out... if it turns out you're not that into it, i guess move on. i think it's a process to find what you like - or at least like more than other things... maybe dabbling is enjoyable. also, i guess you're quite young. you've got time. hopefully you have a good home life, and if so, you have the luxury of trying out various things. right now i surf cast for fish. before that, it was chess. i dabble in raspberry pis, but am not at all good at it. and mushroom hunting. there's ham radio....

Roswell said:

taught in Welsh language

Yet another caught up in a political dogma designed to stunt an entire country's youth.    I was taught ITA when I was a child - an alphabet designed to totally confuse the reading capabilities - it's worth googling.   .  

Can you pick up any short-courses in easy subjects at a local college just for the practice and CV fodder?      Maybe something practical that you can see and feel?      3D printing or something?

I went to a school in Wales taught in Welsh language and was English so it was always a struggle for me. With bullying from some mean students as well, I couldn't continue anymore by the age of 15. I had a mental breakdown.

I don't know where to start. I have health issues, physical and mental, quite severe, and I am working on improving them through diet but it takes time, I have to follow a special pattern. So I have little energy to learn anything for long and the attention deficit is part of that.

It would seem to be an awful waste of your time and intelligence to just drop out with no results or clear direction.

I've always considered whatever I'm doing to be worth doing until I have the alternative in place - whether it be a job or a hobby - to end up with nothing after a lot of investment seems to be a poor return on the original decision - I must have thought it was worthwhile in the first place to put the work in.        Disillusionment is just the spur to make progress.