Failed expectations...

I have a pretty similar story desu

>grow up in middle-class college-educated never-divorced white catholic suburban american home
>sent to montessori for pre-k
>sent to church school for elementary
>prescribed ritalin for hyperactivity
>test at 140 IQ
>finish elementary
>quit ritalin
>go to gifted & talented middle school
>become atheist
>smart but slacker
>public high school
>teachers call me a genius
>still slack af
>fall in love with hippie girl
>pine from afar as friendzoned
>get scholarship to university
>major in philosophy
>dream of being pythagorean platonic theologian
>experiment with LSD and partying
>find girlfriend
>lose virginity
>start reading into occult philosophy and post-structuralism
>develop schizophrenia
>illusions, delusions, hallucinations, oh my!
>do tons of fucked up shit
>lose girlfriend
>kicked out of uni
>nearly die
>sent to jail
>sent to hospital
>heavily medicated
>snap back to reality
>oh, there goes gravity
>oh, there goes Rabbit, he
>Choked, he's so mad but he
>won't give up that easy, NO
>he won't have it he knows
>his own backs to these ropes
>it don't matter he's dope
>he knows that but he's broke.

>>8718695
>>major in philosophy

anyway fuck off to >>>/adv/

>>8718695
wow that's honestly a pretty interesting story

I have a story about hooking up with a literary qt in my high school english class but nothing really happened she just realised I was an emotional void and left me, no one would believe it anyway

>>8718705
I sure don't believe it.

>>8718695
kys

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>overachieve all through school
>straight A's, student council president, won a record number of science olympiad medals in the state, etc
>take a year off between high school and college taking care of my kindergarten-age little sister because my mom has cancer and my dad works full time in another state
>can't afford to go to any of the top-tier schools I got accepted to
>refuse to get student debt
>go to shitty state college that offered me full ride
>go for a couple years
>everything feels pointless, if I get the degree I'll just be in the ratrace and unhappy
>stop going to class, eventually drop out
>go out in the desert, do a lot of ayahuasca and peyote
>decide to become a musician
>spend the next five years traveling around playing music, just scraping by
>fall off a bridge and fracture my spine
>resting up with family, realize what I really want to do right now is write
>present day, everything in life is uncertain

I'm going to buy a cheap van off craigslist and live in it for a while.

I certainly went from "lots of potential" to "lowlife drifter" pretty fast, though. Guess it was the drugs. And the depression.

>>8718695
>reading at the level of a 12 year old at age 4
>rank in 98th percentile in abstract reasoning for my age group
>mother is paranoid schizophrenic, in and out of a psych ward for my early years
>father is an abusive bully who scared the living shit out of me
>complete loner in school, despite being top of my class in math and physics (I hated english because my teacher was a fool)
>also captain of the basketball team
>don't know how to interact with other, cripplingly shy and anxious
>start medication at 15, makes me less nervous but I stop having any feelings at all
>start to experience depersonalization, would go months without having conversations with anyone, just one word answers
>graduate, study computer engineering
>actually have to apply myself now, can't coast anymore
>working ridiculously hard for the first time in my life, competing with people on my level intellectually who have also developed a good work ethic
>will get there eventually but it will take a shit ton of work as I'm really not used to working this hard and I have a lot of bad habits

I don't know if I've failed or not, my counselor told me he would have expected me to drop out of high school given my childhood and subsequent issues so I guess I'm not doing too bad.

With decent people as parents I could have been so much more.

>>8718695

>Test above average on an IQ test
>High school teachers tell me I'm real smart
>Fuck up my life, which is amazing really, since all my high school teachers told me I'm so smart

God damn it /lit/.

>lazy but smart
>hs fuckup
>drop out of college
>live in N. Africa and Europe settling in major cities and always establish myself well with the artistic communities
>grilles let me cum inside them
>parents tell me how proud I am despite the fact that I am starving and poor
maybe its the drugs and alcohol, my friend. or the mental illness. I have depression but its the good kind that makes me really popular, I actually almost enjoy it.

Sorry for anyone not living the /lit/ life :/ Hopefully my novels and poems will inspire you when I become famous

What the fuck has this got to do with books

>>8718814
It lets you know how smart people who read books are.

>>8718697
kek

>>8718695
>i'm rly smart!
>but my life is bad :(

Seek validation somewhere else

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>>8718739
So the moral is don't do drugs?