Dropping English Literature

[SuperSue77]

Is English literature important for future life? My son is ASD/ADHD, great at maths, science, geography, has a reading age of 16/17+ but hates fiction and especially poetry. I see his future lying in computing/IT type industry for which he is already showing interest/aptitude.
He really struggles with school and the lessons he is not interested in, school are already allowing him to miss RS and art. To help him cope with the GCSEs he will want for the future, is dropping English Literature a reasonable idea? I know they do this at some special schools but my son is in mainstream, though on SEN register (no EHCP). So long as he has English Language GCSE he should be okay surely? He got 114 and 117 in his reading and SPAG SATS if it is of any relevance.

@Toomanyminifigs that’s a great way to approach it/encourage him, I will try it with my son though I’m a couple of years behind you!
My son’s education is almost like a full time job with all the effort I’m putting into it. I’m desperate for him to stay in school and he himself has said he doesn’t like the idea of online school. We were turned down for the EHCP in year 6 but luckily his secondary school are very focused on pupil wellbeing, rather than just grades, so I am hopeful he will be well supported and they’ll be understanding about him not doing their “standard” set of GCSEs.