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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like this is such an uninformed question. It’s like asking how anyone who is not thin, tall, lithe, and graceful can possibly succeed in life when they clearly won’t be successful as a ballet dancer. Perhaps if we just starved teens who aren’t thin enough, or made them have height stretching surgery?

There are people who are really good at thinking fast and reacting quickly, and those people may pursue careers that use those skills. Other people will choose careers that fit  the skills that they have. Maybe some people will choose wrong initially and have to pivot. That’s how life goes.[/quote]

+1 People with ADHD, for example, can do well when they focus on their strengths. For my DH that was software engineering. He can can apply his hyperfocus tendency to that all day long. However, he has no aptitude for management so that did limit his advancement.

But also, I'd assume most of the "elite college" students who are "disabled" are not actually challenged by any learning disability but just got someone to sign off on it so they could get extra SAT time. My kids both have ADHD and found school difficult because of it. Even with accommodations, EF coaching, and medication, school pushed them to the limits of their EF capabilities. And plenty of kids have more challenging ADHD than they do. One has graduated and is doing great in a FT job that plays to his strengths. The other has done well in summer jobs in the field that is her passion. Neither of them do jobs that replicate the juggle of school where you have 5-7 different bosses, all with different expectations, schedules, deliverables, etc. [/quote]

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