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Do you ever find yourself backing down from things because you don't think you are good enough/people don't like you? I'm kind of an introvert and I'm seriously thinking about dropping out of school because I'm never going to be great at anything. :-\

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I used to be like that, but then I grew up. That sounds mean, but it's not my intention. I grew up, got my priorities straight. Realized I am worth it and able. You are worthy and capable.

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Keep studying, education will give you power and freedom. You will find yourself to be more capable of great things you ever imagined! I graduated from HS 10 years ago. A couple of the most popular people are a failure now - drug addiction or alcoholism. Many unpopular kids from my school are now doctors, lawyers and engineers.

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You're awfully hard on yourself there. 😑😩

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Please promise you won't!!! Please take my advice before making a choice!!! I dropped out of high school junior year and it was and still is my biggest hugely wrong regrettable/mistake I've ever made thus far in my life! I thought the same, that I'd never be anything or the I'd never have anything! Now at 27 I can assure you not a day goes by that I do not think about that mistake! I so wish I could turn back the hands of time! If you decide to drop out you will be lost and will never do anything with your life! But if you stay you will at least know you can always do something with your career an not have to go to a community collage to get a GED first! I'm proud to say that I returned to school the next year and graduated in 2008 with a 3.8 GPA!!! Better your life and stay in school for one day you'll ask yourself why you didn't!!!

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When it comes to school the best advise I have gotten is to:
 1) Be persistent
 2) It's not easy, if it were easy, everyone would do it 
3) Ask for help
4) Know your limits (in terms of knowing whether you will use a Bachelor's degree or masters degree and if it's worth pursuing)
5) When it comes to grades or schoolwork don't take it personally, be professional about it, it business. Your not your GPA or grade.

I'm currently finishing up my PhD, it's not an easy road but worth it if that's what you want. 
Good luck.

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I hated high school. I have social anxiety, trichotillomania, depression AND anxiety, on top of OCD. I was not popular. My best friend and I sat alone with each other all four years. We helped each other through depression, an many other things. I made C-D average and had a gpa of 2.3 when I graduated. But I'm 19, I've been out of school since May, and I feel good. I'm glad I had high school to teach me stuff and now I'm begging that my college app goes through so I can be back in. Finish school. When you walk across the stage on graduation day, you'll feel ten pounds fall off your shoulders. I've never had support throughout my school career besides my dad. And the day I graduated, was the first time I saw him cry. I cried. Do it for you. Finish it for you. Don't say "I quit hell." Say "I kicked hell in the ass and then blew it a kiss." You got this.

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Trust me, after HS more then half of those people won't matter once you start an adult life & focus on your priorities. It can be hard since you're still young, but once you pass this stage in your life it won't even matter anymore. Just keep pushing through, be yourself, & focus on your future plans.

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the thing is with perfectionism that you are sabotaging yourself. no one can get good at anything if they have such a high standard at the start, moreover, the top 1% of people, the exceptional people, are just that. not everyone gets to be great, so may as well accept that you are average like the rest of us! and enjoy yourself and dont let being unexceptional stop you from trying to get better at things. because the goal of getting better is not to be the best, but simply to progress in the direction of improvement. if you let yourself be reinforced for doing better than you did before you will learn soooo oooooh much faster than only petting yourself feel good about perfect performance. you don't have to be the best or even good or ever good to improve at something. improvement is always good by virtue of being improvement. so don't give up and remember that success requires more failures than failure. failures failed once. successes failed numerous times.

- from a fellow introvert, former perfectionist with social anxiety disorder. I almost failed out of college the way I was going. then I got myself used to feeling uncomfortable and making mistakes (on purpose!!!!) now I am graduated and have a job and stuff

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Quitters never prosper... Don't drop out. You'll thank yourself later that you didn't. Hang in there, it gets better!!!

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Okay so I hated high school. I hate people and I hate being around people. Because of it I dropped out in 11th grade. I am now almost 26 and I wish I never dropped out. 
I went to home school right before dropping out I just wasn't into it. 
Now that I'm a lot older I always think damn is you stupid you should have stayed in school. 
I've only had two real jobs my whole life. One when I was 16 and one at 18. 
I'm lucky tho that I am able to be a stay at home mom and my fiancé can go out and work and make enough money for me to stay at home with the kids. And just because I did drop out and didn't finish school i can not get a job. If it wasn't for my fiancé id have nothing. 
Stay in school. Dropping out is stupid. If I had the mind set I do now back in high school I would have never dropped out.

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