Don't know if I can get through school

I dropped out of school at 16 and now at 26, I'm trying to get my GED and maybe go to college after that. The problem is, I'm not sure if I can. I have a study book for the GED test and do average to slightly below average on most sections, above average on a few subjects that I like, and then there are a couple I really struggle with. The biggest problems for me are that you have to write an essay for it and growing up I was diagnosed with a learning disability that had to do with writing. Even though I can think up things in my head, I have a lot of trouble writing my thoughts down and explaining things. I also can't do the math at all either – I don't think any of it is too difficult/complex but I still had to guess on a lot of questions. I tried to learn as much math as I could using things like Khan Academy, but I just can't do it.

So now I'm in my mid 20s and I still don't think it's possible for me to even get a high school level education. If only there was another option. I don't know if there's any hope for me.

Welcome to PsychCentral, Proust!

This is going to sound like terrible advice, but just keep practicing. Practice writing essays. Something I do to help organize my thoughts is to just start writing things down. Not sentences, nothing fancy, just ideas. Once you have some ideas, start organizing it into an outline. And once you have an outline, you can start filling it in. When it's in the outline stage, you can move things around, change the order of paragraphs, etc. until it feels right. I hope that helps!

I'm terrible at math, so I can't really help you with that... All I can say is practice there too, but beyond that...

Good luck!