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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a mother of a child with ADHD. I'm terrified my child will fail to launch. She's ambitious and we provide rules and she has chores and we expect good grades and she gets them . . .  but her executive function skills are 3 years behind her age. Someone talked about parents being terrible for not letting kids drive at 16 and waiting until 18. Do you know how much executive function skills it takes to drive? Everyone on the road should be thanking me we held off on her driving. Such a weird thing to complain about. Safety over societal norm, please.

Anyway, ADHD is not a mental illness but it is a disorder and maybe she will surprise us but I fear she will be in our house forever unless she finds a husband who can deal with all the things that come with ADHD and that's not very likely. She has relationships but her ADHD always seems to get in the way and she doesn't seem to be able to stay in relationships. [/quote]

She can launch three years later. It’s ok. You are on the path. My DD with ADHD took an extra year to get her degree. It wasn’t the disaster others told us it would be.

Please don’t tie relationships to moving out. Too many young women move in with bad partners to escape pressures at home.[/quote]

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