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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are there ASD girls that anyone can speak to their experience?[/quote]

Yes, I have an Aspergers/ADHD/anxiety daughter.  She struggled all four years even with support from her state school disability services.  In retrospect, she should have taken a gap year. We underestimated how difficult the transition would be for her. Unlike the professor above, several of DD’s professors never even read the accommodations that she was entitled to and later tried to punish her for using a computer in class to take notes (this was six years ago) and didn’t give her extra time on papers. She had to go to Disability services which then educated the professor as to what the professor was supposed to be doing instead of acting in a punitive manner.  We did have DD sign the Privacy act waiver so we could go to Disability services and advocate for her when she collapsed. The schools’ Disability services offices are only as good as the director heading it (we went through three changes) and the degree to which they will advocate with professors when an issue comes up. Also, if you haven’t had recent testing done within the last three years, the college or university will ask you to do it again. At the time we looked at colleges we used a book that reviewed the disability services at each college. It would be obsolete niw but I imagine there are now many available on Amazon [/quote]

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