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[quote=Anonymous]Adult who had undiagnosed ADHD for all of childhood. I was smart enough to get by in school, and I did reasonably well on the SATs without extra time (which wasn’t even an option as far as I knew), but I was also smarter than my test scores and grades would imply, and I do wish I’d known that as a kid.

Once I finally understood as an adult that my brain worked differently than some of my peers’ — that I wasn’t less intelligent or afflicted with some character flaw, it was merely a difference in how I processed the information I took in — I was able to retrofit my work life accordingly. Only then did my career and life satisfaction really take off.

To the parents who don’t want to get the extra time because you want your kids to learn to focus all on their own, I respect what you are doing, and I think it’s absolutely fine to not want your kids to get accommodations. But please make sure your kid knows how their specific mind works, that they may be smarter than their record implies, and that different jobs and circumstances create varying levels of “friction” to their individual success.

Good luck to all still reading this 5-year-old thread. [/quote]

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