Anyone else dropped out from high school?

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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?