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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah I agree I would focus on the behavior and figure out if she knows why she rushes. Is she forgetting to look at the instructions and check her work? The "I don't care about my grades" could just be a mask bc she feels uncomfortable. And like the PP, my DD who has ADHD and anxiety does this quite a bit. How well she does directly relates to whether she remembers to read/re-read the instructions and whether she has checked her work. [/quote]

She seems to genuinely not care one way or the other about her grades, but also says she hates checking her work and just wants to be done (they're allowed to read once they finish, which surely doesn't help the situation, but I think she would also rather stare at the wall than spend more time on math or other schoolwork that bores her, especially when it's just checking it back over for mistakes.)

I have ADHD (and totally relate to disliking the slow careful process of checking your work, but I was also always highly grades-motivated) and she has some signs that point in that direction as well, but she doesn't meet enough of the list of criteria to be diagnosed so I don't think there are any accomodations in her future unfortunately, even though they would probably help with this.  [/quote]

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