“High school isn 't a very important place. When you 're going you think it 's a big deal, but when it 's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they 're beered up.” (Carrie by Stephen King) My high school experience was not the greatest and I can very much relate to that quote from Carrie. My high school career had the potential to have been better, where I could have graduated instead of attaining my GED. There were three main things that interfered with my high school education. Overall, the two and a half years I spent in high school, I lacked the support of my peers, teachers and parents. Without the support I craved and needed, it interfered with my performance at school. My first year of high school, I wouldn 't say I was popular,
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The depression I was experiencing at this point in my life resulted from the lack of parental support and help raise my cousins. While depressed I ended friendships, that I could have used, if I asked for their help. The deeper I could feel myself falling into depression the more I pushed everyone around me away and made it harder for them to notice something was wrong or that I needed help. Since I didn 't want to be around anyone, I found it difficult to attend class. I would pretend I was sick or fake an asthma attack, that way the nurse would send me home. She would call my aunt to pick me up, who would just drop me off at my house. Every single time that I would walk into the high school building I could feel an anxiety attack happening, which made it easy to fake any breathing problems. On the days that I felt I couldn 't handle the nurse, I would just leave my house and wait for my brother to leave for school before I would sneak back in. Since no one was home or there to force me to attend class, I simply didn 't go. With this in mind, I would just lay in bed sleeping. I would sleep till my aunt dropped my cousins off for me to babysit. Sleep was the only thing I could do, wanted to do, or cared to do. Depression was the biggest hurdle I faced that interfered the greatest with my
The depression I was experiencing at this point in my life resulted from the lack of parental support and help raise my cousins. While depressed I ended friendships, that I could have used, if I asked for their help. The deeper I could feel myself falling into depression the more I pushed everyone around me away and made it harder for them to notice something was wrong or that I needed help. Since I didn 't want to be around anyone, I found it difficult to attend class. I would pretend I was sick or fake an asthma attack, that way the nurse would send me home. She would call my aunt to pick me up, who would just drop me off at my house. Every single time that I would walk into the high school building I could feel an anxiety attack happening, which made it easy to fake any breathing problems. On the days that I felt I couldn 't handle the nurse, I would just leave my house and wait for my brother to leave for school before I would sneak back in. Since no one was home or there to force me to attend class, I simply didn 't go. With this in mind, I would just lay in bed sleeping. I would sleep till my aunt dropped my cousins off for me to babysit. Sleep was the only thing I could do, wanted to do, or cared to do. Depression was the biggest hurdle I faced that interfered the greatest with my