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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dear Prof,

I have been working on these and other skills for years with my ADHD/ASD kid.

He will mess up, despite being explicitly taught these things. He's in contact with the disability office and has already asked you for his extended time.

He had high stats and is an academic, intellectual person, which is why your place of employment accepted him. Sorry, but he's always going to be an absent-minded professor type, and his brain is somewhere in the vicinity of Pluto most of the time.

And you know who it hurts most? Not you. HIM. He is destined to go through life with ADHD and ASD and all his social quirks. You've only got to suffer him for your class. He has to suffer himself for life.

Best regards,

Mom.

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Oh FFS stop using their disabilities like a crutch. The professor is right and if your poor addled ADHD kids you have probably hovered over and made excuses for and bulldozed a path for over the years can’t meet basic expectations, you failed them. [/quote]

It's true a lot of these kids don't learn except with very hard concrete consequences. I've tried teaching my kid all of these things over and over and then over some more. His non-HFA younger brother has been able to do them for years. I kept expecting his middle and high school teachers to lay down some consequences. But nope. So, if it happens in college, so be it. I'm glad these professors have some standards. My HFA kid thinks the world is full of people that want to attend work with him without him taking a shower. I get that it's harder for him, but still if he's working with others he needs to understand. I hope the real world teaches him that this probably won't work out for him except in a couple of fields. You go professor! The high school teachers are too scared to lay down any standards and most of the HFA kids have gone off the rails and won't listen to mom or dad anymore. You are our last hope before the consequences happen during a job.[/quote]

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