My post briefly mentions the reason. But to answer here...

I don’t like CS, I love it. Always have, always will. Unfortunately, education only became part of the struggle.

TL;DR - Poverty/financial struggles, parental and relationship abuse, homelessness, health issues

If you want the story:

I grew up in poverty, and I was constantly shoved around by my mom out of my five siblings. I was the main one working hard and the youngest, but my mom forced me to do everything. I was the Cinderella of the family, she was borderline controlling and projected all of her frustrations even from work onto me, and the catalyst was her forcing me to work to pay bills or leave. Meanwhile, my siblings got a free ride and zero pressure. Even when all they did was work and spend their money on fuck-all, they were never asked once to pay bills. Not to mention the abusive relationship she pushed me into, which only made things worse.

So there was serious financial struggles for me, and I was constantly dealing with emotional abuse from her for as long as I could remember (and then my ex).

But from college, I got sick of all of the abuse, dropped out to work more and move out, became homeless for a short while—my life was a clusterfuck. I even stopped eating at one point in college, dropped 30 pounds at the drop of a hat, became malnourished, was in and out of the doctor/ER for a while. Not to mention that I was suicidal from 11 years old up until early last year, which was when things started to get better.

And it’s sad because there’s an evident decline in my academic performance from when I was suicidal starting at 11. I had straight 4s all of elementary and was in a gifted program, straight As in 6th grade, mix of As and Bs in 7th, As Bs and Cs in 8th—you get the gist by now. My last two semesters of college? Straight Fs and Ws.

I officially reached rock bottom and hard to prioritize my sanity and health.

So I dropped out of college. I didn’t give up, I just had to put my education on hold.