I need to get a degree because I'm stuck in a minimum wage job. I'm 24 and I still don't have even an Associates degree. When I finished high school I went straight to work at a fast food store and I'm pretty much stuck.
The reason I don't have my Bachelors by now is because I just can't study. I took general education classes at a community college and it just made me frustrated. Two of the four classes I took were Fundamentals of English and Intro To Algebra, based on my placement score. So that's another issue. Even though I went up to algebra 1 in high school and passed, I basically forgot or wasn't proficient enough. Then I got to Algebra 1 and English 101 and US History. I dropped all of them the first time. Then a year later I tried again in Eng 101 and finished with an A grade. But Algebra again totally frustrated me.
In 2010 I was diagnosed with ADD, and took Adderall. But it didn't help me in my studies. The adderall game me side effects and I stopped.
I take way too long to learn things. I have to repeat it to myself over and over. I think slowly and new situations freak me out. I'm losing confidence in myself completely. My short term memory is weak, because I can't handle multiple bits of info at once. I've just been scared, anxious, depressed, and nervous about life since high school. In high school I realized it was getting hard for me to learn.
I can write and speak but that's about it. I'm not really learning how to do things. It feels like I don't have any substantial knowledge in anything useful. The only thing that makes me happy is watching movies and TV shows and stuff like that.
I don't have a social life because I'm always fearful of being a totally idiot and not knowing something.
If I just have some kind of learning disability what am I supposed to do?
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