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[quote=Anonymous]You described my son.  These outbursts about school come from anxiety on top of ADHD. Schoolwork feels overwhelming because they can’t focus.  They’re not good at explaining their emotions so instead of saying “I’m stressed,” or “I feel overwhelmed,” it’s always the school’s fault for making them do useless things.

What has helped is medication to address both of the anxiety and ADHD, therapy and a semester of every day executive function/study skills/tutor.  He’s at a private school that tries to make learning fun and engaging, has small classes, and a light homework load for classes that aren’t honors/AP, which we avoid.  He gets As, Bs and the occasional C, which I’ve learned to be fine with.

If he were at a school that was career-focused, he’d undoubtedly find fault with that and find their classes pointless too.  I suspect the same with your son.  We’ve told him that he doesn’t have to go to college. He acts insulted when we suggest this as everyone he knows has gone or will go to college.  He’s only a freshman, so we’ll see how things go, but I could see a post-grad year at boarding school and some time to mature being beneficial.[/quote]

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