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[quote=Anonymous]12:24 again. Sorry for hogging the thread. I want to post because I feel for your child, who sounds similar to my severely inattentive son. He was diagnosed formally at 10, but we knew he had inattentive ADHD years prior. My husband didn't want to medicate in primary school, which is why it took so long to get the diagnosis. It's terrible to see a child do the work, then not get the credit because he forgets it in his bag!

Please do whatever you can to help him. This son of mine is now in college, and we got everything squared away before high school. In high school, every grade counts. In this recent test-optional climate, GPA matters more than ever. Your child needs the highest GPA he can possible get, so any accommodation you can extract from his school, any med that you can give him to be less forgetful and more attentive, will be crucial for his academic success and his chances of going to a selective college, or getting merit aid that will decrease the exorbitant cost of college. Some peers of my son were rejected from UMD, their state uni, even though their weighted GPA was 4.4. UVA is even worse.

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