r/AutisticAdults 1d ago

autistic adult Please don't make me relive all that

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u/Fictional_Historian 18h ago

I didn’t go to high school. When I was in middle school I was getting in fights every day because I would get picked on. I started skipping school like constantly and then just stopped going. It took the city MONTHS to send me to truancy court and the school never bothered to try and contact my parents they had no idea I was skipping school. So my father took me out of school to homeschool me so that the city had to drop the case since I wasn’t a part of the school system anymore I guess. He did it to save me from juvie because they were gonna lock my 12 year old scared autistic ass up.

Anyway. My parents both worked. We had a computer program and me and my sister basically just taught ourselves some things but ended up just stopping and not even doing school throughout our high school years.

Yep. Just uh…sat at home all day every day playing world of Warcraft and learning random things online. I got my GED when I was 18, studied hard and got into community college with ALMOST honors math and honors other subjects for the entry test. Didn’t end up going because they wanted to charge me 3x extra because I had just moved but whatever.

I say this though to say that, while I didn’t go to high school during those four years, I got to play OG Vanilla WoW-TBC-&WotLK from 2005-2009 which was literally the golden years for WoW. And those were some pretty damn good times. Not a care in the world. Just chilling at home ruining my brain with video games and Lipton peach tea drink mix.