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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, are you sure you want to send her to college and let her fail?  There are some real negatives to this, beyond the money you will lose.  Bad grades will go on her record and pull down her GPA.  If she has any of the same professors again, they will remember her flame-out.  Her peers will also remember and that will make it even more difficult to make friends if she returns to the college.

If you want to employ some natural consequences and you feel you need to let her have a big failure, why not do so right now?  Stop packing for her, and tell her you will NOT be driving her to college and paying her tuition unless she packs and makes the arrangements herself.  Then stick to it.  If what you've told us is true, she can't possibly succeed, and then you can let the departure day pass and make a new plan.

It sounds to me like she is paralyzed by severe anxiety.  I think you need the neuropsych eval.[/quote]

+1, this isn't something to do natural consequences on when it will really impact the rest of her life and she has some type of disability.  If she had no disability, I agree but with a disability she needs support, not failure.[/quote]

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