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[quote=Anonymous]PP.  Also ask your son to come up with a plan for being accountable and staying on track.  His grades suggest that school was boring and he didn't stay on top of the work.  If he wants to go to college and do better, he can't procrastinate as much.  It will end up in flunking out.  Some people on here hire executive functioning coaches for their neurodivergent kids.  People here might call it helicoptering but perhaps you can be your kid's coach just by agreeing on a set time each week where he discusses his upcoming workload, the steps he's taken, reveals any difficulties so you can brainstorm solutions (involving the college's resources), and he reports bad and good news.  From what I've seen, even good students sometimes fail freshman year because they don't get started studying until six weeks into the semester, then they are too far behind to catch up.  They hide this from their parents until it's too late.  Then lying breaks the trust between parent and child.  If you can be a coach that will help.  Or if he can do it with willpower and regular check-ins with the university tutoring office, that's okay too.  The point is to develop good habits and be consistent.[/quote]

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