I was force homeschooled by my parents. And by homeschooled I do mean 100% left to my own devices when not being lectured on religion. I was never taught math or how to use a comma but I did watch muppets in space twice in one day while baking every pie in the Betty Crocker cookbook. So that's something.
I made it out as a functioning member of society by reading voraciously any book my parents owned (Matilda style) including "the womanly art of breastfeeding." I do not recommend it for 12 year olds. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't harken back to it after my first born.
At 15 I enrolled myself in the local community college by bluffing my way through forms. I promise that Pell grant money was not wasted. Thanks for understanding.
Hamilton gets me. From Ron Chernow "Like all autodidacts Hamilton had some glaring deficiencies to correct." And "his education supplemented by voracious reading, Hamilton was able to compensate for his childhood deficiencies." Deficient autodidacts unite! Thanks reading! Thanks Roald Dahl. And the local library. And even you La Leche League! AND you A.Ham, for making me feel less like self-taught freak. B
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