Anyone else dropped out from high school?

I think dropping out from school combined with having an ADD/ADHD brain has made me lack a solid direction in life.

Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. It feels weird though. I dabble in this and that but rarely focus intensely on anything.

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  • 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.

  • 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.   Smiley.  

    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?

  • 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!

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