Post by firefly on May 5, 2005 20:30:27 GMT -5
Hi there,
I'm really glad to read there are so many other people experiencing similar difficulties who are in education!
I never finished school and have struggled with trying to sort my life out for the last 8 years, up until recently pretty unsucessfully.
I had problems from the start at school, my parents were advised to move me up a year when I was 5, but my father refused. (clever, but the one who lost about 20 school jumpers every year!) I never remember paying any attention to classes at school and somehow got the grades without putting in any work. My father liked to uphold the belief I was just a gifted child, though it now becomes clear to me, if I was, I also have ADD-like problems as well. When I hit more advanced material trying to learn through open learning I floundered because it actually started to challenge me, but with the problems I was up against and no coping strategies for my disorganisation or any study skills, intelligent or not I was unlikely to get very far.
I was never sure what I wanted to study, but in trying to change my outlook I've decided to study *everythingi want to* instead of none of it. I have recently decided to get myself back into education to study for a BSc, but am terrified about where to start with learning how to learn, how to manage my life and don't have a clue where to get the support from. (classed as a mature student in the UK I don't think we are eligible for much support.)
I confided in a few people that I think I know what the problem with my previous failure might be. My mum made me rather irate by saying "if its that hard why bother trying, you can't really suceed" but I caught on to the fact that she was probably trying to make me get irate, fired up and ambitious. Might help, I miss the hyperactive quality I had as a child as being full of energy can be very useful.
Hopefully my brain is still in there waiting to wake up again!
Anyway, focussing on what i'm trying to say,
what do most of you do for support at Uni? Are any of you in the UK and/or mature students?
I don't know who to approach or how, and I'm not so much looking for meds and formal diagnoses, I feel I would do better with the support I should have got at school but never did. To be honest, I'm terrified about how to go about going back into education and learning to make it work for me.
(I am pretty sure my dad was ADD but he had/claimed he had a lot of mental illnesses, and when i has problems as a teenager i ended up being carted off to an adolescent psychiatric unit instead of down the corridor to learning support
)
Sorry if some of my posts seem a bit muddled or oddly written or if anything sounds rude, can write, but not read things back through today!
If you read through that, hello and thankyou for putting up with my inane babblings
I'm really glad to read there are so many other people experiencing similar difficulties who are in education!
I never finished school and have struggled with trying to sort my life out for the last 8 years, up until recently pretty unsucessfully.
I had problems from the start at school, my parents were advised to move me up a year when I was 5, but my father refused. (clever, but the one who lost about 20 school jumpers every year!) I never remember paying any attention to classes at school and somehow got the grades without putting in any work. My father liked to uphold the belief I was just a gifted child, though it now becomes clear to me, if I was, I also have ADD-like problems as well. When I hit more advanced material trying to learn through open learning I floundered because it actually started to challenge me, but with the problems I was up against and no coping strategies for my disorganisation or any study skills, intelligent or not I was unlikely to get very far.
I was never sure what I wanted to study, but in trying to change my outlook I've decided to study *everythingi want to* instead of none of it. I have recently decided to get myself back into education to study for a BSc, but am terrified about where to start with learning how to learn, how to manage my life and don't have a clue where to get the support from. (classed as a mature student in the UK I don't think we are eligible for much support.)
I confided in a few people that I think I know what the problem with my previous failure might be. My mum made me rather irate by saying "if its that hard why bother trying, you can't really suceed" but I caught on to the fact that she was probably trying to make me get irate, fired up and ambitious. Might help, I miss the hyperactive quality I had as a child as being full of energy can be very useful.
Hopefully my brain is still in there waiting to wake up again!
Anyway, focussing on what i'm trying to say,
what do most of you do for support at Uni? Are any of you in the UK and/or mature students?
I don't know who to approach or how, and I'm not so much looking for meds and formal diagnoses, I feel I would do better with the support I should have got at school but never did. To be honest, I'm terrified about how to go about going back into education and learning to make it work for me.
(I am pretty sure my dad was ADD but he had/claimed he had a lot of mental illnesses, and when i has problems as a teenager i ended up being carted off to an adolescent psychiatric unit instead of down the corridor to learning support
)Sorry if some of my posts seem a bit muddled or oddly written or if anything sounds rude, can write, but not read things back through today!
If you read through that, hello and thankyou for putting up with my inane babblings
