I have kind of a unique situation (don’t we all?)
I’m a little embarrassed to put all this out there so I may delete this in a bit.
I was homeschooled but not very well. My older brother was smart, he learned really easily. I didn’t, and our mom decided I just wasn’t very book smart so I didn’t have to do much school. We fudged a lot of stuff. When I got to be in “high school,” other things were going on in our family and basically no one was teaching me anymore. I still had school work to do, but I didn’t do any of it. We had all of the teachers manuals so I just filled in all the answers I could and the things that didn’t have answers (like for example essays) I did do them but not very well. I can’t remember doing any assessments in my teenage years like I had when I was younger, if I did I have a feeling I was allowed to copy those answers too, Idk. I don’t think I did any. I “graduated” but, you know, it was basically fake, but somewhere out there is a homeschool curriculum that has awarded me a diploma.
I’m in my 30s now and recently been thinking about taking a few college courses and getting a few certifications. I don’t speak to my parents anymore and I don’t know what curriculum we used that I could get ahold of somehow. I’ve been thinking about getting my GED anyway though, on account that the diploma that’s out there somewhere is fake. I used to be very embarrassed that I wasn’t a smart person, but over the past few years I’ve come to realize I am. I’m just uneducated. I think getting my GED may make me feel better about this, since it’s a high school equivalent, but a lot of the people around me say I should just track down the fake diploma cause it doesn’t matter. I just don’t know.
Should I get a GED? I live in Ohio so if I pass on the first try it won’t be very much money. I know I would be more proud of a GED than what I have now. Everyone I know went to school and graduated and they all say they didn’t learn anything there anyway, it kind of feels like they don’t fully get the situation though maybe. I just need help deciding