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Smallville posted...

i did too. You dropped out cause you couldn't pay for it anymore though?

That was part of it. My mom was already in tons of debt and she was paying for most of it. I didn't want to put her in more debt.

I was also dealing with health issues because I got viral meningitis the summer before 9th grade. It caused me to have infected fluid in my brain and spine, which gave me some brain tumors and I started having seizures randomly. They put me on dilantin to control the seizures. It wasn't until years after I stopped taking dilantin that I found out that it causes short term memory loss.

It was bad. I was an A and B student in school and I graduated from middle school in the top 15% of my class. School was easy for me back then. After I started taking dilantin, I would forget stuff a LOT. The teacher would teach us stuff and I'd understand the stuff perfectly. Sometimes, by the time the teacher handed out worksheets so we could practice what we learned, I would have already forgotten it all.

When I was in college, my mom gave me an ATM card so that I could withdraw money if I needed to buy something. There was a time where I put the card in the ATM, pulled money out, then walked away without the card. By the time I realized I forgot the card, the machine ate it. My mom overnighted me another card. I did the exact same thing the next day. There was also a time where I got on the bus to go home with my backpack full of books. I got off the bus without my backpack and started walking home. I was about half way to my apartment when I realized I didn't have my backpack any more. I went back to school and waited hours for all the buses to come around. My backpack was gone and no one had turned it in to lost and found.

I did relatively OK in school that year, but not as well as I would have hoped. I was wanting to major in computer science, but I was frustrated that none of my classes had anything to do with computers. I was taking a bunch of classes that I didn't care about and didn't want to do more "pre-requisite" classes the next year.

So I just dropped out.