Did You Drop Out of High School?

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Or before?

I left school in the 8th grade. Tried all kinds of alternative schools later, just never worked.

no i went 2 mainstream skool cos i was only diagnosed with autism at 13 but i refused 2 go every day and i failed every exam so i left skool with no qualifications and i got really badly bullied and i just wanted 2 leace but now im at a specalist college in my 2nd year.

I would fight with anyone who messed with me. But it must have been terrible for you.

What are you studying?

8th grade here too...went for my GED later. Last two years were a nightmare, teased, stressed out with changing classes, bigger classrooms, noise...didn't sleep, constant headaches, couldn't eat without getting sick...I was a mess, but no one understood why then, not even me... I just gave up.

Wish homeschooling had been an option back then, but it wasn't...not where I lived anyways.

I made it to the middle of 9th grade. That was the beginning of my own personal descent into hell. I was misdiagnosed as having all sorts of problems, and given extremely controversial therapy to solve these problems.

Mainstream elementary school was hell. Mainstream high school was more hell. University is the most hell. I think of dropping out everyday.

I did not manage to complete 2 years at high school (left age 15). Before I went to school I really thought I'd like it, but it was living hell.

The consensus seems to be that high school is hell. For me just sitting in a classroom, following droning teachers in elementary school was boring and tedious. I couldn't WAIT to get out of schoo and just never return. I pretty much decided that at 14. I got my education through life, books and the internet.

It was my peers that made school hell for me. I dropped out in Grade 11... chased out by a female bully making false claims and eventually getting me sent to prison for a crime I didn't even THINK of committing.

Most people are scum.

Wow, that's serious...

i attended less in the 3rd year of high school, and only attended for my exams in the last year.

spent most of the days as i do now on the net. i got a few £500($1000) phone bills as this was before broadband and 0800 dialup.

Nope. I usually did pretty well in my classes, but there was one time I came close to having to take summer school.

I absolutely possitively hated school, but didn't drop out because I was afraid I'd have to go back. A friend of mine with AS stayed and toughed it out, he refused to allow anyone to take that from him. However he was homeschooled alot so it's not like he had it as rough as alot do.

well knowing what i know now, if i could change it i would of tryed to do home schooling and or internet online courses in high school. problem is that i'm an adult and 27 yrs old, aspergers only has been known for 10 yrs. so when i was in school there was no such thing as aspergers. anyway i did do my fulltime in high school, graduated from high school with a 3.8 gpa, honor roll student and even certifications, worked for about 3 yrs in grocery industry, and then around 2004/2005 all hell broke lose, family tragedies and then in 2006, got some support...

That's f***ed up!

I also dropped out in 11th grade. I went to a snotty private school. It was hell. The city paid my tuition there because I was DX'd with ADD, my parents refused to medicate me, and the public school system refused to deal with an unmedicated ADD kid. After I dropped out, I ended up getting into college without a GED or anything. Somehow I got through that and now I'm doing my masters online, which is delightful, except for the occasional IRL assignments, like interviewing people.

Same here, I made it to the beginning of 9th grade before going into an alternative afternoon school program, and then blew that off a few months later. I went back a few times later, but not in mainstream classes. I most likely would have dropped out in 7th grade if I hadn't been institutionalised during the remainder of 7th grade and most of 8th grade.