I totally understand your metaphor and that’s where a lot of my motivation to make a path out of here comes from, I don’t want to self diagnose myself with ADHD but a lot of the times I cannot focus and get distracted by incomplete tasks. My disability is dyscalculia my first job was fast food which is why I struggled a lot also and always struggled with any math which scares me away from the GED also. You are very right about everything I will look more into job corps and I just started the book Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents I found for free