Can't dig my way out of this hole

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I barely made it through last semester as the stresses of classes and degenerate roommates nearly destroyed me. Now that the classes have only gotten harder, I find myself in an every deepening depression that get worse day by day and week. Having looked at the situation long and hard, I have realized that there is no way I can pass two classes that are required for my major. Facing this, I feel hopelessly trapped between dropping out and spending the rest of my miserable life cleaning the bathrooms of 'normal' and 'successful' people or continuing to ram my head into an impassable wall till the inevitable self-destruction. I've tried my colleges disability services, but their efforts don't look even remotely helpful. A psychologist I've been working with thinks OVR may be able to help, but I have yet to see any meaningful reason to find hope in them. For now I only have the energy to sit back and wait for every thing to fall apart. I don't know how much longer I can put of with waiting for the universe to destroy me. I just want to end my suffering.

What kind of degenerate roomates?

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I'm sure that isn't true about dropping out, not everyone without a college degree or academic background is a toilet cleaner, education isn't always an indicator of how well someone will do in the real world. There are people with degrees from Cambridge who can't get jobs and people who have rarely any qualifications yet start successful businesses or enterprises.

University or college courses can be overwhelming and cause a great amount of pressure, you need to realize that you are going to be self critical and negative in that environment. You need to take a step back and understand that you are probably more capable of achieving your goals than you realize.

The kind of roommates I'm dealing with are your typical dull meat heads who have yet to face a serious class here. Between bouts of yelling homophobic slurs at each other they run around the hall, most likely with little if any clothes on acting like feral animals. I find it impossible to believe that I'm the same species as them.

As for my academic situation, I'm currently majoring in accounting, but after spending several semesters analyzing this choice I know that it cannot work. At this point the only first course of action I can think of is to switch to a slightly more generalized major in the same school as my current major. The only problem with that is that I may not be able be able to drop the impossible classes and stay on my parents insurance due to the health insurance Nazis that control the US Gov't. AS does fall into that BS notion of a pre-existing condition so I would probably be unable to get insurance on my own.

I am not one of the homophobic jerks who cavort around in the halls. I despise them with every fiber of my being.

In any case, I've looked over matters and to my despair if I were to switch to a more generalized major would result in me having 14 classes after this semester rather then 8 which would mean that I would be stuck in this crappy place for four semesters rather then two. So once again I, faced with the no win situation of choosing to stay in my current major which seems unworkable and all but guaranteed to destroy my sanity, switching majors and possibly forestalling my loss of sanity for a semester or two or dropping out and condemning myself to a miserable life of cleaning bathrooms in a dying post industrial town in a dying post industrial country surrounded by the worthless idiots of a dying society.

You can also try to retake the classes again if your university offers them.

If there are any other universities nearby that offers that same course, you should take it over the summer. But before you register, make sure that the credits are transferable. You should def look into it.

I know exactly how you feel. Heck, when I first came to WP I made a thread alot like this one. You've probbly had a lot of people tell you not be too hard on yourself, and like me, you probably never knew what the hell that meant. But now I think I do. It means that you cannot be so worked up over your failures that you let your pride in your successes be ignored. I don't know what those may be, but I garantee that they are thier. To start, You got into college .

I throughout my own battles with depression I found that I had a tendancy to think and act in mental circles, when faced with a problem I couldn't solve. Each time you finish a lap without solving your problem, you become more panicked, more depressed and more convinced of your own shitiness. I won't lie to you, even I havn't really figuired out how to fix my own work ethic problems, but as for depression, with what you said, I would give you this genereal advice

Don't hate your roomates. I completely understand how annoying they are, but you have to realize that hating them is not a productive use of your time. It's kind of hard to explain, but aspies tend to be very closeminded and stubborn once they have formed an opinion that something is illogical or bad or something like that (I know I am) just try to keep an open mind. Being angry will just make you bitter. If you try to empathize with them, you might end up having fun, and maybe making friends with one or two of them (although there are probably one or two of them who really are batshit nuts)

Now I know this MIGHT be considered profiling of a kind, but most aspies I know are all very smart. Maybe your not a genious, but just remember. you have one thing you can be certain of. NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS YOU WILL NOT END UP CLEANING TOILETS FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. Maybe you don't get your dream job, or the one you wanted or expected, but if your smart enough to get into college, you. will. not. end. up. working. at. Mcdonalds. period. your too smart for that.