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Mendel247 t1_j9e600m wrote

I needed this. I should have gone to university in 2007 but took a year to work and save some money, then 2008 happened and I hadn't really managed to save much anyway. I started working in 2007 and never had the finances to go, and had no support from my family. In the UK there are student loans but loads of my friends were waiting months and months for their loans, and I simply couldn't afford it under those conditions. Now I'm in my mid 30s and I'm finally looking at going to uni to study something completely different from what I'd wanted to study back then. I'm a completely different person now, and finally medicated fea neurological condition that affects my ability to learn and work, and I'm feeling really positive about it, even if I know I'm technically old enough to be the parent of some of my likely classmates

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mvndaai t1_j9fjza0 wrote

Not having ADHD medication made me waste so much time in college. I spent like 8 years wandering through and eventually failed out. I took 3 years, got a real job, got married, then went to a different college. Once I had my life together even though I was working full time taking mostly night classes I graduated with honors. I am a programmer so I probably didn't even need the degree but I never have to think of going to school again and I am happy

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Mendel247 t1_j9fm3yg wrote

I have ADHD, too. I was diagnosed last year after years and years of struggling. I've actually been teaching English as a foreign language for the best part of a decade (without a degree, go figure!) and I've found I'm really good at it, but what I'm better at is working with gifted or struggling students and helping them/their parents identify what's causing their issues (and gifted students are very likely to have issues, too!) and get help. Following my own abysmal experience with getting ADHD treatment, and the appalling way so many of y students have been treated, I've decided I want to become a neuropsychologist. I finally got adequate treatment at the end of last summer and since then I've finished a series of coursera courses - more to see if I can actually commit to studying and to get back into studying than for the courses themselves, and I've been really consistent and I've done well on the courses. I wish I'd been treated sooner, but I wasn't, so I just have to make the best of now...

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Megaclyde t1_j9fk04i wrote

Same, this post and some of the other comments. Im similar to you (close to mid 30's from the UK facing down the prospect of starting uni for the first time) and pretty apprehensive about it if im being honest.

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