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[quote=Anonymous]I was your daughter. I have ADHD and struggle with depression. I got a lot of F's my first three semesters in college. A's in my major, F's in everything else (actually an F in one of my major classes too). I took a lot of years off and struggled like a fish swimming upstream. Lots of service industry jobs. I was in a big city away from my family (but that is a good thing, my family was a huge problem). At some point I got tired of struggling and decided I wanted to go to law school. I went back to the same college I'd dropped out of (open admission urban fine arts), managed to get an A in every class from there on out because I knew I had to to bring the gpa up. Applied to law school and got into my first choice tier 1 school (99th percentile lsat, unusual major, being full pay, huge improvement in grades, and undergrad school they'd never had a student from all helped). Law school was much, much easier for me than undergrad (I'm good at reading and good at tests, bad at homework/projects). And I'm a really good lawyer.

So I got through. Medication for depression helped. I have never taken ADHD meds, but if I could go back and do it over, I probably would (I used all kinds of tactics to help myself with the ADD -- a big one was sitting in the front row of my law school classes).

Give her the support she needs, and she'll eventually find her way. [/quote]

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