I can't stop worrying about it. ADHD has fucking ruined my life (and don't say I'm using it as an "excuse"...I was diagnesed with it when I was 5 years old and didn't even know what it was until years after I had been diagnosed with it). I can NEVER concentrate on ANYTHING in school, I feel like a complete dumbass because of it and my grades are terrible. Why is school so fucking easy for everybody else??? Everybody I know gets 80s and 90s without even trying. I am so fucking sick of people talking about being accepted into college like it's easy and no big deal. I'll be happy to get accepted anywhere.

and then there's math class. I was in 11th grade math at the beginning of the year, but got moved down to 9th grade math because I did not understand a single thing going on and had a 38 average. I still couldn't understand even 9th grade math and failed with a 63 average. I'm currently taking 9th grade math in summer school, and I'm going to be a senior. Makes you feel pretty good about yourself, doesn't it?

I hate myself and all these goddamn learning disabilites I have. Seriously. I had a fucking 66 average in Web Design class when everybody else had 90's. I kept getting distracted and going on the internet. I told my web design teacher repeatedly to help me focus when I started going on the internet because I have major concentration problems, and she didn't do a single thing about it.

My parents couldn't care less about my grades either. I keep telling them to remind me to do my homework because I always forget to do it, and they never do. They used to care, but I think they've just given up because they know i'll never do good in school.

I hate myself.


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The bachelor's degree isn't everyone's path.

You may find yourself going for the AA degree.

To get into a 2-year college, all you have to do is take a math placement test in regards to your math disability.

I'm pretty sure I have dyscalculia.

Not like anybody knows what that is.

I know what that is.
I did a report on it in the 8th grade.
Its that math disability, right?

Yeah.

Math class last year was my worst yet. Here I am, surrounded by kids two years younger than me getting 80's and 90's and me getting 40's and 50's on the same stuff. I passed one...yes, one math test last year. I got a 66.

why dont you take special ed classes. My dad teaches deaf kids who have more problems then you and he gets them into specially designed courses

I'm in special ed...it's not all that extensive though. It pretty much consists of getting tutored in whatever subject I need help with at the moment for a period a day and taking exams separate from the normal kids.

Oberheim,

I would like to let you know that success doesn't come from college. I am currently in college but I have operated numerous businesses since I was 13.
If that was the case, the third richest man on the planet (Bill Gates) wouldn't be a college dropout.

Maybe I can help you develop a strategy. Find me at my site on my sig