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[quote=Anonymous]My DD has never been officially diagnosed, but has ADHD.  Her sibling has it, and I'm very familiar with the symptoms and diagnostic criteria, which is why I'm pretty confident about it.  We've never bothered paying for the assessment because I don't think it will add anything to what I already know about her and she hasn't needed accommodations.  We just got her test results for the highly gifted center and they are pretty far below what I expected, given what her academic career to date and her MSA test results would suggest.  I actually didn't want her to go to the hgc, but she was rather excited about the possibility as she's been pretty bored at the neighborhood school.  Now I feel guilty for not getting her diagnosed and maybe getting her accommodations or medications.  Plus, she quit the soccer team this year because she found it too boring to wait for the ball to come to her position, and her father is insisting we stop piano lessons because she doesn't practice regularly.  I personally don't care of she does any of these things, but now I'm questioning whether it's that she doesn't WANT to do them, or that the ADHD is making it so difficult that she gives up on them.  Is the only way to tease it out to put her on meds and see what happens?  
Add to all of this that her sibling with ADHD occupies an inordinate amount of my mental and physical energy, and I just feel kind of awash when it comes to her.  [/quote]

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