I'm in my mid 20s and looking to do my gcses. I left school in year 5 and spent the rest of my school age years suicidal (started age 7), and was diagnosed with clinical depression which is and always has been untreated as they could never find a solution that works for me. Therefore I haven't been able to do any basic qualifications or education.
I have ASD which was diagnosed as low functioning from the age of 3 but have never recieved any extra support for it. I'm unable to do the most basic of maths, and have gone to classes but it just doesn't work, my brain cannot function when working with numbers and I break down. I've tried different methods and way of learning but still no success. Can't even read the time on a clock, or do 3 times tables for example.
I'd like to go to college to do a level 2 course but I understand that you this is impossible without maths GCSES. I have no idea where to start. I haven't gotten anywhere with my life, everyone else my age have been to uni, bought their own house and are on their second or third kid, where as I'm still living at home for the unforeseeable future, and it makes me wonder if my life just wasn't meant to be. And somehow I'm at peace with it..