A Blue-Collar Girl in a White-Collar World

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Saturday August 25, 2012 · 9:00 AM PDT

2012/08/25 · 09:00

I am (and to some extent, have always been) a writer, but my desire to become a novelist did not emerge until after I’d made the choice to drop out of high school and become an “autodidact” (someone who is self-taught -- see My Experience With Unschooling). All I knew then was that being in a traditional school setting made me terribly unhappy (for reasons that could fill a separate blog piece) and that I’d always had a knack for creative writing. I had no idea what was in store for me, venturing out into the wilderness, leaving everything I was expected to believe about school behind.

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Wednesday April 25, 2012 · 6:26 PM PDT

2012/04/25 · 18:26

My father, DailyKOS blogger leftyparent, turned me on to an article in Psychology Today about a woman named Kate Fridkis and her unschooling experience. After reading it and realizing how much her experience mirrored my own, I was compelled to comment, and encouraged (by my father) to blog about my experiences, here. I use the word 'abbreviated' because there's a lot I could expound upon, but I think this diary sums it up pretty nicely.

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A Blue-Collar Girl in a White-Collar World

My Experience With Unschooling (Abbreviated)