I dropped out of school in late 2011. I was in 10th grade.
Since then, I have been a miserable slacker. Nothing has stopped myself from doing the right thing but myself.
Today I logged onto Khan Academy and took a math pretest, and I didn’t remember how to do long division, scientific notation, and I don’t even know what a god damn integer is.
I’m a stupid, ignorant failure and it’s all my fault.
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hey dude, you’re not dumb, i can tell that just by your writing. there are ways to rectify the decisions you’ve made in the past. find out what’s available to you – whether its finishing year 10, doing a bridging course, studying at tafe, whatever – and just go for it. find out what kind of work you’d love to do and forget about the past. you’re still young, man. as a slacker myself whose made many shitty decisions i know how the brain just rots and rots while you’re doing nothing. and i wish someone took the time to give me a little perspective earlier on.
ps. i’m terrible at math and i don’t think i’ve passed a math test without cheating since the 6th grade. i’m 24 now. math just isn’t my thing and who gives a damn!
Hey! Just want you to know, you’re in now way a failure. I am a living example myself of having dropped out of school after my first breakup and never wanted to go back again. It was the end of the world when I opened my biology textbook and didn’t remember the scientific name of human beings. I was under the care of a psychiatrist and was also prescribed medicines to cure my anxiety.
Going by what you say, I surely felt it was all my fault as well. And it is. But you know what, if you can get yourself into this mess, you can get yourself out it too. I know it feels like you don’t know what to do right now. I empathize with you.
You just need some reviewing and to study, man. 🙂