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I attended public school, but I consider myself to have been home-schooled. I reguarly zoned out during lectures at school, and did all my learning on my own. I wish I had been home-schooled from the beginning. Then I might have been able to leverage my genetic gifts better (music, writing, mathematics, and logical ability). Instead I felt frozen out socially because I refused to dumb myself down to fit in.

Even in the gifted program I was enrolled in, I felt like an outsider. The other students in the gifted program were elitist, whereas I felt that my innate intelligence was merely an attribute, and that how one uses what one is given in life is the true measure of success and worth. As a result, I was ostracized by my supposed peers. It's always been a mystery to me why smart and/or so-called good-looking people consider themselves better than others. Maybe that's a sign that I was raised right.

I may as well have been home-schooled, because the only lesson I learned from public school were how much I hated public school.

That should read 'was' in the last line. I was originally going to list multiple reasons, thus the apparent subject-verb disagreement. I hate seeing mistakes in my own writing, and am quick to jump on them before someone else does.

I reguarly zoned out during lectures at school, and did all my learning on my own. I wish I had been home-schooled from the beginning. ... Instead I felt frozen out socially because I refused to dumb myself down to fit in.

After 3 years of parochial school, I went to a public school and dropped out. Body there, mind exploring the universe.

I may as well have been home-schooled, because the only lesson I learned from public school were how much I hated public school. Ditto. My kids have it so much better than I did, thank God!