For the past few years of my life I have been a neet, neet meaning "not in education, employment, or training . In late december 2021 I just stopped going to school, I was 16 at the time, depressed, dsyphoric, and just not in the mood to engage in school . It's something that I'm a little embarrassed to talk about, it makes me feel like a failure, in America the vast majority of people gradurate from high school, even those from very disadvantaged backgrounds, but I didn't . It's socially seen as a really big accomplishment to graduate from high school, it's also considered normal, almost like the late teenager equivalent to speaking your first words as a baby, but I couldn't do it . I'm not gonna beat myself up about it though .