[Foggy]

I've had a bit of a rough ride in regards to school work. I've always found myself intelligent enough to understand what I was learning but never focused enough to do well on school work. In college, this problem has magnified itself. I was thinking of dropping out. I don't want to drop out though. College is a source of great independence for me and if I dropped out I believe I would miss many growth opportunities. It's not that I don't enjoy learning, but I'm continually frustrated with my scattered brain and I never feel like I'm making any progress or that anything actually sticks with me. I hate taking medication, but I see it as a short term solution that could possibly help me get through college which might be well worth it for me.

I'm posting this mostly for feedback. I completely botched this semester. I'm going to be struggling not to be put on academic suspension next semester, and this summer I'm getting tested for ADD. Not to self-diagnose but I'm pretty sure that I have some degree of it. I was actually tested positive for it as a child but my parents disagreed with the diagnosis so it was never treated in any way. I'm curious about what other peoples experience with medication has been, if it would really make that big of a difference in my school work, how bad the side effects have been, etc.