anybody here drop out of school?

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i dropped out of highschool halfway through year ten and than continued onto collage without graduating officially,
than due to personal problems i also dropped out of collage aswell... it wasnt really my choice it was more that i mentally and physically couldnt cope
has this happened to anyone else?

You're missing an option. I dropped out in grade school.

I am still studying...

I was home tutored for 2 years than I dropped out when that no longer became an option.

I basically became a basket case as soon as I entered high school and health issues came into play as a result of it. Bigger classes, more noise, more people period.

At the time, I thought I was crazy, the kids thought I was crazy, looking back now I realize my problems were 98% due to sensory issues.

I just wish with all the therapists they referred me too that someone would have found it back then ...would have saved me 20 years of searching for answers and feeling bad because I thought I was letting other people down.

I spent a fifth year in high school after I pretty much shut down after April 11, 2000, which was the day my grandfather died, during my junior year since I couldn't get my grades up to passing and I refused to attend summer school. Where I'm from, the norm for someone in my situation is to just drop out of school. Truth be told, I considered dropping out of school then and even threatened to whenever I argued with my parents. When they asked me what I was going to do after that, I replied that I would've gotten a job at Anchor Glass Plant 6 in Salem based on the fact that I've had past relatives who've spent half of their lives working for the company, one was the V.P. of the workers' union for 7 years until she retired.

Since I didn't follow the norm, that threatened the natural order of things since I was the oldest person in the student body then. Funny thing is my younger sister, who is a NT, dropped out of school after suffering from anxiety attacks due to Social Anxiety Disorder. She also didn't want to deal with the bs she would've gotten from the other kids. I got a lot of bs from other kids, I thrived on it since I fought back and toughed it out. My sister is unable to tough it out, for someone as smart as she is, she's also a complete dumbass(she's got book smarts, lacks the street smarts; I lack the book smarts, but I've got street smarts).

I only need exams in science and maths to graduate, but I have ADD as well, so I totally suck at math.

I dropped out of 11th grade, studied, and got a GED.

Worst schools ever here.
If you have AS then you are discriminated by the entire school board.
The students don't bother anyone.
But the principals and teachers will mess you up.
Often times they will say things like "You will never be able to do anything."
or "Your brain is fried. You need mental help."
I tested my IQ and found that I was performing at College Level with a 130-145 IQ.
I dropped out of school and then got a GED in not time.
I can't get into college until I'm 16 due to age restrictions.
Overall I didn't learn a thing at school (even though I was in honor classes)
It was just a bunch of unbearable homework to keep us "in line" so we don't learn anything important.
I'm a self learner myself. I have researched a lot of things including Quantum Mechanics...

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I left school in year 11 aged 15. I have no qualifications and my life sucks. All because I was severely bullied at school, I had a mental breakdown (due to the bullying) and the teachers did f**k all to stop the problem. I didn't find out I (might) have AS until I was 16 and it took three more years to get it diagnosed. Not that this would have made much of a difference...

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I dropped out of school at the end of year 7 when I was 12 because I'd been having lots of problems there. I went back briefly when I was 14 in year 9 but then I left again. I went back properly in year 10 and now I'm in year 11 I've stopped going to normal classes but I do an alternative instead. I'm still going to do my GCSE's though luckily.

I unfortuantly dropped out way to soon, i did
kiddy school, something after that and then
when i turned 16 i just went my own way.
Tried a couple of schools, elcetronics and
a....not sure what to call it in english, a
school were you work out and learn different
working out things in addition to some book-stuff.
But i quit one after a short time and got myself
kicked out of the other one sort of.

My problem, i have realized as an adult, was the
people around me and the decitions i made. I never
understood fully how important it was, i was there
and just tried to fit in, the learning was secondary
in a way. I remember clearly sometimes i paid
attention and did as i was supposed to do, and i
liked it, i liked learning. But, then i looked at the
other guys around me and tried to fit in, i didnt
know at the time that was what i was doing, but
it was. Most of the other guys were noisy and
screwing around and i ended up acting like that
to not stick out I remember very clearly moments
at school where i was doing something stupid and
at the same time thinking "i wish i could just sit
down and learn in peace, this is just stupid".
But as soon as i tried, someone was all over me
wondering why i was trying to be the teachers
pet or something. I didnt know i had AS until
i was 30, so i was just a regular kid like every
body else, i spent most of my school days
just trying to understand the people around
me and trying to make friends. I remember
a teacher pulling me aside a few times when
i was 13, he was so frustraded, not angry
but frustrated, he said he just wished i could
work more because he was sure i could do
whatever i wanted if i tried, but i didnt try,
he didnt understand why i spaced out so
much, he said he saw so much potential.
I told him i was trying, but what i was trying
was to fit in. We were talking about two
different things.

So, now i`m 30-something, i have no school
papers, if i go out into the jobmarket tomorrow
i`m at the end of the line, I`m the guy picking
up your trash and cleaning floors. And thats ok,
i am not to good for those jobs in any way, but
sometimes i wonder...were would i be if i just
had done as i wanted instead of trying to fit into
something i didnt fit into It would be so nice
to have an education, i feel that no matter how
much i study or learn on my own, i`m always
a bit behind most other people. I have nothing
to back up what i know, i only have my own
learning, thoughts and ideas and thats not
worth much without the diplomas on the wall

I feel like i destroyed alot of the chances i had,
but i didnt know that was what i was doing. I
get by and have made a job for myself, but
i feel a constant pressure, if i fail i have nothing
to fall back on, failure is not an option and i
worry sometimes, it can be hard.

edit--
to illustrate how backwards it was - i still have
two group projects that 4-6 people was supposed
to do together. After 4 days i had no hope that
we would ever make it and it was a nightmare
to work in such a way, glueing together several
peoples work. So i offered to do it alone, did them
alone at home in the evenings, and aced them.
Everyone got good grades and all was well. So i
was capabel, i just didnt know how to do things
with others, it was so much easier alone.

I voted: no, I graduated.

I took my final exam in 1998 (I went 4 years out of 3). The education program was called: Datakunskapskolan (Focused at data programming and other IT subjects)

Since then I have had to evolve of course and continue on exploring new technologies.

Technically, I have. I graduated high school, and I got my Bachelor's of Science degree, but then I went into a Masters of Science program at University of Oregon for Advanced Organic Synthesis. I passed the first class for this, but then I realized that it wasn't the career path I was looking for, so I dropped out of the program. Now I'm returning to Oregon State, though, for my Masters in Chemical Engineering.

I dropped out of high school after only attending for 5 months. I was struggling with a few classes & everyone rejected/bullied me, but that wasn't the reason I dropped out. I left because depression overwhelmed me to the point where I couldn't bring myself to get out of bed. After having treatment & being rejected by the school for having too many absences, I tried going to a new school but that only lasted one day. I couldn't cope in school & there was no one in my family who could home-school me. I thought I was doomed to a life of working at a supermarket until I discovered distance learning. Not that there's anything wrong with working in a supermarket, I just want to do something more rewarding & I can't do that without an education.

I dropped out of high school, I was sick and bedridden for ~2 months with no medical insurance and almost died. Took care of myself then.

I did go back and finished the last semester I needed. Needed to finish 2 of 6 classes to graduate.

in 11th grade, I fixed myself. nobody helped. I went to my teachers and my counselor, trying to get my transcript fixed, picking up credits, getting recommendation letters from teachers. I put myself into summer school - nobody told me to do this. I opened the manual and calculated my credits. my counselor and my parents ignored me. nobody told me what to do. I myself started doing enough homework to get an A in Chemistry in 10th grade. nobody helped. my grandma just kept emotionally abusing me - she is a terribly abusive person.

failed out of 3/5 freshman and 2/5 sophomore classes. took 4 summer classes. assertively got my computer lab teacher to sign correction forms and change the F (due to absences w/o excuse) to an A for a class a year before. I graduated with a 3.0 because my HS did not count Freshman grades. Got 690 on English SAT I and 720 on Math SAT I. 690 on SAT II (I have not studied) I got into a competitive program in a college. I have not studied at college. I am still here about to graduate, kinda wasting my time. Just feeling low self esteem and no study skills. Oh well. Funny thing is, I have a 3.6 GPA right now because tests have been easier than they should have been. My college degree may very well be useless, a burden, really, due to loans and lack of real skills.

I did not tell my family when my graduation would be. Kept it a secret. I stood in the crowd myself, got in line, my name was called, I quickly went through the stage, shook hands, grabbed my diploma, and just as quickly I was off the podium on the ground. There were no pictures taken of my graduation. After two years, I threw away my gown, and then my cap. The Class of 2006 graduation coffee cup stands on my desk and I throw change in it.

My parents were not really aware of the graduation process. My grandma and aunt were a little surprised but it kind of passed by them. They did not make a big deal out of it. But it was weird being in the crowd of 500 students in my 12th grade class, with other parents there and stuff. But among 500 students, it was, thank God, easy to get lost.

Graduating high school is like being discharged from the army - you've been abused, you learned some fairly useless skills, and you are going - mostly nowhere. Lick your wound and work for peanuts.