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[quote=Anonymous]"She's just doing it for attention."

Obviously, this is a go-to explanation for pretty much everything, but when it hit me was re: the daughter of a friend of mine. She is blind in one eye as the result of some kind of medical condition that also affected her pituitary gland (at age 14, she looked like an 8 year old, very pretty but very tiny) and has major learning disabilities (although a surprisingly advanced vocab, yet she doesn't read at all if she can help it and then not well at all).

What she loves, and is incredibly talented at, is drawing. She draws figures that are a bit anime-ish but have incredible life to them. She will disappear into her own world for hours with a sketchpad or notebook drawing her heart out, her face a couple of inches from the page. She's reluctant to do schoolwork at all--doesn't rebel per se, and she's so quiet they don't even notice she's not doing whatever.

This is not about attention-seeking. This is about her doing something she loves to do, which is inherently much more rewarding and reinforcing than math (struggle) or reading (struggle) and she would be perfectly happy if her teachers ignored her all day long.

"He needs to take responsibility."

"He" has severe ADHD, no organizational ability with physical objects, and is completely overwhelmed by his papers and has no clue where his homework is, even though the resource room teacher helpfully organized his folders for him last week (as opposed, of course, to working on a way to teach him basic organizational skills--actually, if all the paper was replaced by digital files, he'd be fine). [/quote]

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