How many people have a High School Diploma?

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If you are highly intelligent and socially mature, there are colleges that will accept you without a high school degree. I believe Simmons Rock College is one.

I am highly intelligent, however I cannot do any of my homework or regular work at home by my self, I simply have a thought block each time, so I don't know if I can handle a college class, my mom beleives I canthandle it because I can't do my own homework. What do you all think I beleive I shouldbe given a chance to try a college class to see if it's different from my high school classes.

I got my diploma only because I knew nowadays, you can't really even get a job without one, let alone a good job.

This is also what I'm telling my girlfriend when she doesn't want to go to school...

I have my diploma too, like many to satisfy others (parents, teachers). I detested school though, for various reasons. I'm still glad in a way I have my diploma, I think there would be a genuine risk of having regret if I wouldn't have got it. However, in the year before my last one, I seriously considered dropping out, I had a hard time staying, and the reason I continued was the fear of regretting quitting later.

Well, my 2 cents may not be worth much, but here goes...

1) I HATED school too. Mostly it was because I had a ton of difficulties with associating with peers, & also with the teachers. I felt I wasn't getting much out of it. However, my parents made me attend, & eventually, I even succeeded at getting my HS diploma. I always felt it was pretty much worthless, but that's another story. I stuck it out, through thick & thin, & made it to the goal line. I even went on to college afterwards. I've had different jobs too over the years.

2) My oldest daughter also HATED school. Mainly for the same reasons I did. Except, she dropped out of school last year (against my wishes). Now she's drifting aimlessly with no real ambitions. It's sad. She gave up, & that means that she let all those people who were mean to her & gave her a hard time win. There are things she wants to do, but no self-discipline to achieve them. She's going to have a very rough road ahead of her. I wish she'd have stayed the course, & kept the commitment. But she ran away from her responsibilities. I have no idea how she's going to make it in the real world. I've given her plenty of advice, but she thinks I don't know what it's like living in a difficult world where it's hard to fit in. All I can do now is try to get her to finish what she started & get her back on track.

My recommendation would be to stay the course, & get your diploma. HS is 4 short years. It's not a lifetime sentence. Once it's over, there'll be plenty of opportunities to open up. Also, with the economy the way it is, you'd be far better off staying in school. There's a ton of competition for jobs out there. If you think life is hard for an Aspie in school, try being on the outside trying to get your foot in the door of any job when there are plenty of NTs who have a natural understanding of society & the workplace. Trust me, that's a very scary place for anyone who doesn't have that natural ability.

I wish you luck! Please don't make the same mistake my kid did.

Well after lots of consideration I have determined that the right path is to finish up High School, Im very worry some about my well being and I don't want to make the rest of my life harder than it is, I'm am luck to have a mom who os very determined to tale care of me, I have tried to get a job before and failed misserably, so I don't know of I can even get myself to get a job but, non the less I do plan on college, my parents both said as long as I keep doing stuff in my life like volunteering, or make a take extra college classes which I plan on doing, and other things to better me they will support me, even of it means I live with them for the rest of my life ( I'm not aiming for that, but that's how it's startig to look ) so I'm very lucky, I just wanted opinions and I beleive the right choice is to stay the course.

Special thanks to everyone who responed, thank you!

I was forced to graduate High School even though it was an absolute waste of time. All I did in my four years of HS was sleep. Every teacher I had in HS were the lecture type which basically put me to sleep every period. The only time I was awake was in my art classes.

Middle school was a nightmare because of the fact that I just didn't fit in and my teachers hated me for some strange reason. I was picked on in gym class because I was the worst person to play a sport amongst other things and of course being picked on by my peers didn't help any either.

Sometimes, staying the course can be more painful than choosing a different path.

I have no choice my parents wont budge and i cant manage my life right now, so i dont know how i would od it after i got my ged?

I heard once "the difficult path is usually the best", im not so sure anymore?

I have a high-school diploma from a Catholic college-prep school. The only rezone I have the diploma was cuz my parents did not want me to drop out. I had resource accommodations cuz of my dyslexia & ADHD & I took the easiest electives I could. The only corases I did well in wer the elective non-college type stuff. My grades wer curved in a couple classes so I passed. Having a diploma only seems to matter if your planning on going to college. I had NO interest in going so I did not go. I have no more of an edge with employment than someone who does not even have a GED. The diploma seems worthless to me. My parents occasionally make comments when wer having deep discussions about my life & they complain about how they spent a lot of money for me to get my diploma & I'm not doing anything with it. I tell em if they would of listenend to me then; they would of saved their money & that's exactly why I am NOT going to college because it will be a waist of more money. I think it would be a better idea to give kids the option of going to trade schools instead of pushing em all to have a diploma. NOT everyone is capible of learning the same stuff at the same pace in the same way. The school system can NOT accommodate everyone's individual streetlights & weaknesses. Some of the most successful people in America do not have good educations; they had other skills or came from successful families or lucked out into getting connections

My high school diploma was a Basic, not a Core 40 like most people.

As a result only one real university in the entire state would accept me so I had no choice but to go there.

During my senior year of high school I had strongly considered transferring to the alternative high school because of all the stress. Plus I was suffering from a huge mental breakdown and didnt do any prepartion for college. (I didnt care to go. The majority of my college experienced sucked anyway.) But yeah the only reasons I didnt go was severe hesistation and the likelihood that my parents would not be on board with this. They've pretty much controlled my path/choice of education since middle school.

I would NOT recommend an alternative school to an aspie unless you check it out beforehand. Those schools do not have any kind of structure, and harbour a teaching method that can be damaging because they are so used to teaching people they think they can "fix" - the expelled, the druggies, the teen parents.

From what I've learned in Psychology about the American education system, finishing up high school plus attending college seems to be pretty vital if you want a chance at any sort of decent job or career after graduation. That being said, you want to try and make your education work for you. I was going to suggest home schooling, but it appears you're already doing this.

From what I read of your initial post, it does seem to me that some of the hygiene issues etc could possibly be worked upon. I know that when I was living with my parents I relied on them to do many basic things for me, and I didn't believe I was actually capable of learning to do these things myself (and never had the opportunity to find out, as my parents would always step in) until I left home and went to live at college, where I was forced to look after myself. Sometimes living with your parents can actually hinder progress, and stop you from achieving the level of independence you are capable of. I would not be concerned that without your parents you would be unable to do basic tasks such as remembering to wash yourself etc, you would be surprised at what you are capable of. I understand about simply not remembering to do these things, I was in the same boat (not with hygiene so much, but with other tasks), and I found that what helped me was creating my own structured daily routine that I adhered to and practiced, incorporating basic daily tasks, until over time it became habitual. You need to make sure your parents keep out of it and don't try to intervene or structure your routine for you, because this is what screws everything up. If you do these things on your own, without interference, then they are less confusing and insurmountable, because having more people involved than just you can cause brain overload so you just shut down and become incapable of achieving tasks without direction.

There is no way I could get my parents to stop intervening mainly my mom.

Sit down and discuss it with them rationally. Come up with certain tasks you need to achieve on your own. I don't mean that your parents have to stop intervening altogether at this stage in your life (you are still quite young) but now is a good time to start learning these skills and structuring your own day. When you forgot to do one of the tasks you've been handed responsibility for, your parents must stand back and let you experience the consequences so you can learn from them.

A good way to start incorporating basic tasks into your daily routine such that you remember to do them is to start doing things at a certain order and time each morning. A.k.a. Wake up at 7:30, go have a shower at 7:35, finish showering around 7:45ish. From 7:45-8 get dressed then brush your hair. Have breakfast from 8-8:20, at 8:20 brush your teeth, and at 8:30 you're ready to start the day. That's an example. Over time when you become better at remembering the task sequence you will start to be more variable with the times and order of things, but start out quite rigid, and I suggest writing a plan for yourself and sticking it on your bedroom wall so you can follow it and check it to make sure you haven't missed a step.

Once you get older then you can start incorporating stuff like; bank your cheque from work, check your mail, do your washing, etc. It works for me and mostly helps to keep me on track. The important thing is to stick with the pattern and make very clear repetitive times and orders for things (if you switch around the times and order it just doesn't work and you still forget every time).