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[quote=Anonymous]Ok. My kid takes 3-4 times as long as everyone else in middle school and gets straight As. But she also really understands her sleep needs. She is inattentive ADHD. FWIW — her close friend who also takes forever to do her work, gets As, but obsessive about exactly how the work gets done so she stays up all night, and has major food restrictions is on the autism spectrum. She also has an eating disorder and ADHD.

You need an actual neuropsych to tease out what is going on. You need to enforce a bedtime and no late night electronics even if she needs some sort of sleep medication. Teenagers need LOTS of sleep. And the lack of sleep just makes the ADHD worse.

I hear you on the classes thing. My kid has been recommended for every honors class in high school. She did not get recommended for AP US Gov, but she wants to take it with a tutor. I assume she did not get recommended because they know how long the reading and writing take her. She has agreed with me that she will not do a 4 hour extracurricular for first semester so we can see if she can balance all this. But given your situation, I would have 100% said no to the AP and perhaps dialed down on the hardest honors classes. It is ok to say no sometimes.[/quote]

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