"The Odyssey" discourse. What else don't I know?

I'm a 30 year old high school dropout. I have severe ADHD and was not diagnosed until adulthood. I learned absolutely nothing in school. I don't even know what I didn't learn.

I've been seeing the posts about The Odyssey on Twitter and I vaguely remember being taught about Greek & Roman mythology in middle school but I never paid attention. It has me thinking about how much I've always wanted to make up for what I missed as a child/teen but it also reminds me how hard it is to try to learn about new things when you don't even know where to start.

I had to google The Odyssey. All the comments are making me feel like an idiot but it's kind of a wake up call. I do feel like it's actually valuable to know that there's something that everyone learned except me so I know what I should be looking into.

I'm wondering what else there is that is similar to this. Things that everyone learned, or was supposed to learn, that most people understand is common knowledge. Please let me know what you learned in school that you think everyone should know about.

Submitted December 25, 2024 at 06:50PM by gm12377 https://ift.tt/rhN0m2s