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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any tips or commiseration welcome.

I don't know how much autism and ADHD play into this situation, but my AuDHD college junior has never been able to apply independently to most things. I was the one who initiated his college search and managed all the deadlines, otherwise I think he would have missed all of them. For his freshman summer, I was the one who found him a local job, because he couldn't figure it out. He was hired again for sophomore year, thank God.[b] He did a selective study abroad program, and this time was more independent about all the deadlines, because it was his dream program that he'd always wanted to do.[/b] But now here we are again, in his junior year, where I think he should have really tried to find an internship in his future field... and nothing. He apparently forgot or couldn't handle looking for anything before the start of the second semester, because he was abroad and doing his finals, and now can't find anything. I don't think he's genuinely looking, however.

I have no connections at all in his field of study, and don't know much about internship opportunities for that. He's extremely asocial, and has no friends to ask, and apparently can't even strike up a conversation with professors to talk about it.

He's so irritatingly passive and driving me up the wall!!!

Sigh.
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So he isn't going to do on his own what he doesn't want to do. Key is to find what he wants to do.[/quote]

Yes and no.

There is a lot of basic life stuff an audhd will refuse to do, regardless of if they have a hyper interest.

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