Disapointed with education, special needs?

Question

Heres the story, I left school with no GCSE'S, so ended up on a sports foundation course, due to my really bad learning difficulties/Dyslexia. I did the foundation course, passing with 1 distinction and 2 merits. So i did level 2 and passed that course again with 1 distinction and 2 merits. But they did not let me do the advanced course because of the standard of my English i was in fact getting help on this course, this then made me feel disappointed with myself and the teachers did not seem to care. The school i went to gave me help through out, but i never really learned hard to study, or shown how to study class notes. Im now 19 years of age on the advanced course year one as it is a two year course. Do u think i could go to university at the age of 21, im disappointed with myself because all my friends are at university and in their 2nd year at the moment and having the time of their lives, when i start they would have graduated. ) : I really feel like i want to quit the course

Answer 1

It's OK if your friends are going on - my sister went on with her classes and finally graduated.  She had someone teach her how to study better and ended up making wonderful grades her last year in college.  She has ended up doing much better than all of her friends in the long run.  You can do it - keep it up.

Answer 2

Don't give up yet mate! despite all the "beneifits" you might have had in your life modern life some of that help might have been more work than help. No doubt you had expert advise ,and expert teachers and expert this and that but unless all that expert help has been there and done that or lived your thoughts your just not going to connect.  You have to connect for your self on your own- you  will find a way

I'm 40 ish and over came autism and dyslexia and physical issues and today do a pretty normal life. I was so lucky I grew up before the day and age of special needs this and that. This ideal is  a product of the thinking of  1970s and beyond. Believe it or not if you were my age you might well have been in normal classes and you might not have been diagnosed with "learning issues" . Again special education as we know it today was non existant 40 years ago only the very worst off souls were in special education back then.  The results are stunning.

You will find life is what you make of it and keeping up with your current friends might not be in the cards for you. You can always make new ones. You will find as you go threw life you will make many new sets of friends from various stages of life and you also find you keep a few from each stage of your life that really cared no matter who or what you are.  

If you need some inspriation and a good lession on a strange life and a strange person  read the book The Enigma by Andrew Hodges (1983) it is the biography of Alan Turing ,I think you find the reading a very good copy of your life. Alan by the way was Father of the computer.

Answer 3

I am 30 and in my 3rd year and yes you should still go. It doesn't matter that those friends won't be in the same courses as you. They probably wouldn't haev the same classes anyhow...