anybody here drop out of school?

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anybody else go to graduation alone? or am i f*ked up?

I'm proud of you for graduating all by yourself. That takes a lot of self esteem to do it without support. I don't think I would have made it though HS and my two year without my parents help.
Everyone has someone that is a little emotional abusive in their life.

My sister dropped out, got a GED, and went to college early, and did very well. She often looked down on me because my parents made me spend 4 years in high school(they always thought it would be 5 or 6), even though I could have done the same thing she did. She hated high school too, but not for the same reasons I did. She didn't like the teachers or administration much and all the foolish politics that goes on in high schools.

My issues were both the teachers/administration and the kids who constantly tormented me. She for some reason, never had the social problems I always had, something else my parents held against me. Even when I went to them for help or if I wanted advice about having friends, all they would say was "you don't need any friends now."

I wish I could have gone somewhere I would be free to be myself and accepted for who I was, but that never happened. I also wish I could have spent my college years my way without having to worry about my sister(another story). I'd probably be better off if I had just been free to be me.

I graduated, barely. I wish I could go back to primary school with a note in my pocket: "Do better you f*****g idiot".

I was placed in a custom, high budget asperger project class in the eighth grade. The kind of presumably utopian class parents of AS-children think will change everything ( I live in Sweden where the state commonly finances things like that with generous tax-payer budgets). That's when I dropped out the first time. It didn't help me at all.
I read up on maths and english on my own and did some tests to get grades, and got into high school. I stayed for 5 months before I dropped out.

I'm quite intelligent but school never worked for me, not even in a specially adapted asperger class. In fact, that class was probably the worst and most humiliating time in my life ever.

I get $1500 a month in permanent sick-pay and I live with my dad and have six rooms to myself most of the time. I pay him for rent and specific groceries. It's a convenient life for an aspie but while I'm not totally miserable, I'm not really happy either. School didn't work out, so what options do I have? What I'm missing in life is an occupation I can enjoy, as well as a partner. I don't want to grow old living with my dad. I want to somehow meet interesting people. I've been called a poser and that pretty much explains who I am. I'm good-looking, well dressed and can easily make myself the center of attention, appear as sophisticated and cool but in reality I have no life, no formal education, no job, nothing. Everyone takes notice of me but I have nothing to offer except for a polished exterior and an excentric personality. I'm the kind of guy everyone is curious about and wants to have a glass of wine and a chat with but once they realize there's nothing beneath the surface except for a loser living in his own dream world, they move on.
I've started to accept that if your special interest isn't something academic or something you can build a career on, this is what it's like being an aspie. Nothing ever changes. The times I tried to achieve change on my own, by going to high school for example, it just resulted in mental stress, trauma and conflict with everyone around me.

I dropped out in 2 years ago and i just got my ged in march.

I dropped out of school aged 14.

I decided to do a degree with the open university as they require no entering qualifications and graduated with a bsc in psychology 7 years ago and now Im finishing off my life science diploma and half way through an msc in psychology with OU too.

Lots of Universities will take on people over 21 as a mature student with no qualifications so its never too late to do something academic

I wanted to drop of of high school in my Junior year, but instead I graduated in 2008 and in the top 20% of my graduating class!

I dropped out of High School at the beginning of 5th Year, the summer before I was really stressed out due to trouble I was having with a friend who was self-destructing, I was isolated for months and did nothing but sit on msn and play video games, then I went back to school, and all of a sudden I was just THROWN back into this crowded environment and I had felt like time had just passed me by, my classmates weren't very fond of me as per usual, but I didn't get much abuse from them as I usually did, but the second day back I went home for lunch and these guys who live near me started shouting names at me, and I walked past them ignoring them, then all of a sudden I got this overwhelming feeling like I was about to cry, but when I tried to let it out, I couldn't, I was trembling, and I basically felt like I was falling apart mentally, and I remember thinking "woah this must be what an anxiety attack is" and I went to my therapist the next day and he diagnosed me with clinical depression, he tried to make me go back but I didn't wanna do it, so he arranged this half-day schedule for me, but I still couldn't handle it, so I dropped out permanently, and I went to a 3rd level music course but it wasn't the course for me, so I dropped out of that as well.

I didn't, I saw school the whole way though.

I seriously thought about quitting school last year. This year improved a bit, but it's still very stressful and I'm failing again.
I don't know if I'll ever finish high school.

I walked out of my secondary school when I was 14 and a half. My teachers couldn't cope with me, I hated all my "friends" and I didn't feel like I needed to go to school anymore.
Of course there was a lot of debate and struggle, and after visiting a long line of counselors, health professionals, doctors, and behaviour assessments, I ended up with a diagnosis of Asperger's at 15 and a half.

I have to say, I don't regret it one bit.