22 Mar 2016, 8:27 pm
School has always been a very stressful experience for me, but somehow I managed to get incredibly close to graduating with the class of 2016. I was going to barely make it with the credit recovery I was doing as long as I didn't fail any more classes, it was the 3rd quarter and I was starting to shut down from all the stress. I recently figured out that I ended up failing a few classes and as of right now I will not be able to graduate properly with my peers. 
What's really frustrating though is that my 13 year old brother skipped a bunch of grades and is currently taking some college classes. He will be graduated and have a bachelors degree by the time he is old enough to drive. He wins about 90% of the games he plays to the point that nobody ever wants to play anything with him. He wants to go to Harvard and he will probobly succeed at that too. Right now he has a bunch of programs up on his computer helping him develop an equation, and he plans on entering a prestigious bioengineering competition in a few years. I am proud of him and we do have a great relationship with each other, but by society's standards he is a genious and I am a screw up who can't even pass high school properly.
I have had a bit of touble coming to grips with the fact that I can't always hold myself to the same standards as everyone else, especially considering that me brother is exeeding those standards. I'm really glad that I got my Asperger's diagnosis very early on because otherwise I would likely be holding myself to a normal set of standards and thinking that I was an idiot because he is great at so many things that I am really bad at. I am pretty disapointed about not graduating with my peers, but I suppose I will have to get used to holding myself to lower standards sometimes.
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