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[quote=Anonymous]Thanks for digging up this thread. This is my 11 year old daughter to a tee and I think about this a lot regarding her future.  She has a trifecta of learning disabilities and adhd.  She has slow processing speed, which makes everything harder for her than her peers. She works twice as hard to try to keep up. She's not intellectual or academic at all.   Simple math is still difficult for her. She's not inquisitive. Her essays barely hang together in a coherent way without a ton of help. She doesn't possess age-appropriate analytic or critical thinking skills that her peers have.  And you know what?  That is okay.  Some of this will come with practice and maturity, but she'll never think or learn on the same level as her peers who don't have these learning challenges.   What does she have though?  A incredibly magnetic, positive personality.  She's fun loving and people love to be around her. People gravitate to her. She's got a ton of friends, she's a friend to everyone she meets, and she is quite possibly the most positive, optimistic person I know.   I tell her all the time that this is a gift. It can't be learned in school or studied in a book. You've either got it or you don't.  It's too soon to tell where she'll be able to go to college, since she's not even in middle school yet, but kind of like other posters said, I hope she can pursue a career path where she can harness the power of her personality. I want her to be able to strive for a four year college and with a lot of help, I think she can get there and then she'll need support once she's there. I look around at her friends and can tell right away these girls are all high achievers and will have no problem sailing through middle and high school to a great college--they're smart, studious, school comes easily to them, they don't have any learning challenges.  It's going to be a much harder path for my daughter.  I am hoping she can build up a great resume of other activities aside from the academics that will help her shine even though academically, that's not her strong suit. [/quote]

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