not really
no it's not usually but being told you'll never amount to anything, ever for years does tend to build resentment. When they've told you that the best in life you can ever hope for is to sign on or at best a "McJob" then having a good job and earning a high salary does matter. If it is obnoxious or arrogant to want to tell the people who roundly condemnded you for years then hands up, I'm guilty (kind of thought the point of this QOTW was to TELL people stuff??.) I have since been given the help I should have got and have nothing but admiration and respect for those who helped me. Also if you read it I did exclude the one teacher who tried to get me the assistance I needed, sadly he was unable to do so. He's a top fella. Oh and I don't have a company car - anyone who's looked in to the taxes would take the allowance instead.
(The kneeling rifleman Is slowly getting there.., Sat 6 Mar 2010, 21:59, 1 reply)

Luckily
I went to a school crap enough that people still considered my attempts at work in the 90th percentile of the year, despite having undiagnosed dyspraxia.

Go to uni. They assess you for free, and you can go to workshops and study sessions that help you work around what you have. That really made a massive difference for me.

But yeah, many years of being told you're crap can get to you: although for me that was from home and not school...
(mmmm curry doesn't really understand this sig lark, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 0:04, closed)