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Why do Talkative people assume everyone can benefit from going back to school?

Asked by joscketSeper (323points) April 12th, 2010

Everyone always says “Go back to school so you can get a better job”. I have a temp job now, but it may end. So i have to start looking for something else.

I HAVE experience going to University. I graduated by a miracle, you could say, because actually I struggled to death. I have trouble with speaking and understanding when people speak fast or use a lot of vocab.

POINT IS,, College/adult ed/whatever, is made by outgoing/talkative type people FOR outgoing/talkative people. They’re not gonna slow down and help you just cause you have a slow brain. for that you would have to get private tutors or something but only the rich people do that.

Aside from learning disabilities and speech impediments, I have no social skills, i’m antisocial and have social phobia but college staff expects students to be the same as the majority( confident, talkative).

A confident outgoing Medical Records/Medical whatever/Computer graphics/design etc teacher is not going to slow down just for a person like me. And yet that person(like me) will just struggle to catch up and learn half-ass….and fail the classes( like i did in University (computer science) ) . It took me like a year, way after i left that school, learning the same stuff on my own, to finally understand it but i did.

That university goes by 3 month quarters. Sooo fast, and so much to learn. I have a very slow mind, how can you expect me to learn that fast?

So, is there something I can learn on my own that will be useful for getting a job and that companies will recognize even if i didn’t study it in a school? For me, learning by myself is better. Schools are not for me.
I’m in my early 30’s but i have some mental/development/speech(i don’t know what to call it) problem so I’m very very different from other 30 year olds.

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