[sage68]

Something that has been eating away at my insides for a while and I need advice.

Im a VERY OCD person. I expect the best from myself and others. Ive been homeschooled most my life, and the time has finally come to leave. Im turning 18 on the 30th and graduating in May. I live in a isolated, desolate area full of what seems like inbred hill billies that live wit their parents. im constantly told im on the path to becoming one of these people. Ive been told im bright, smart, "gunna be just fine", even genius. My latest project has been sending a weather balloon to the edge of space and flying a RC plane down. (just one of my ambitious projects I cant focus on due to my emotions) My problem is I suck at math. bad. I can add, subtract, the basics.. run a calculator, all the basics. I learn by hands on, not math. and my Grammar is okay, but punctuation needs work. I was contacted by a Votech directly offering to explore their aviation school and let me fly some of their planes. I want to go for aircraft maintainence and possibly welding as a fallback. im still exploring. Im however worried my lack of skills in the social world and being a dumbass with school will land me in the mcdonalds. I am a person full of ambition and I never give up.. I have the want to succeed but I don't think i am academically capable. i have a skillset in certain places but i know that's almost worthless in todays society.

Please Help me and give me a glance of what the real world is like.. maybe im just too hard on myself

[pegasus]

Hello sage68, welcome to Psych Central.

From what you have written I can see you have the potential, drive and ambition to do exactly what you want to do. Just remember that experience comes from learning from your mistakes so do not be too hard on yourself along the road. You have been offered a great opportunity, they are not expecting you to know everything, just keen to learn. Your social skills will improve as you join the real world but do not look down on those that work at McDonalds, it may be in the future that you need to work somewhere like that in order to get money together to pursue your interests in your projects. So, go for it! Unless you try it, you won't know.

[HowDoYouFeelMeow?]

I agree, go for it!! I teach at a college and some of my students have poor social skills, bad grammar, improper punctuation, etc. but they are learning these things while in college. Schools often have resources for these things, too. You could join a club to work on interacting with your peers or go to its writing center to help with grammar/punctuation. There are also math tutors to get you through required classes. Professors are often very willing to help, too. I teach psychology, but don't mind helping my students with their algebra or pre-calculus during office hours. You can do it!!