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[quote=Anonymous]14:29 here again.  I didn't receive extended time for the SAT or ACT, because as I mentioned, I didn't get evaluated until college (a professor who knew me very well recommended it).  I didn't pursue getting extra time for the GRE because the process is lengthy and involves appeals, and I did all of this off of this on my own, without any parental help since my parents don't believe in learning disabilities (they however did pay for the evaluation, and realized since I took the initiative to do this on my own, I must know my academic needs better than them).  This lack of belief in the handicap did affect my experience in high school and my high school grades, but that's ancient history now.  I didn't have a whole lot of support on how to navigate the college board process, but friends who did it said it was a real pain.  So I doubt what you are complaining about with the PSAT and SAT is really as rampant as you believe.

As far as functioning in the workplace and in life goes, it is a whole different story.  My issue was never with writing papers, or doing project oriented goals, it was more with processing speed on a very specific type of task--an exam.  I have never needed to work my brain in that fashion in real life--and I am great at verbal recall in interviews and the like.  I think a lot of kids who struggle with LDs that are diagnosed late in their academic career--late junior high, high school, and college--who manage to succeed anyway have a lot of resilience.  They are often hard workers, know how to advocate their needs, and have overcome the frustration that comes with feeling like your mind isn't fitting into the mold of other people's expectations.  A lot of kids who breeze through school don't know how to handle the workplace, because it really is a whole different beast.  I know a lot of kids who are A students who don't know how to network, can't work through something that doesn't come easily, and who can speedily answer questions on an exam but not think out of the box on more complex sorts of questions.  Of course, there are kids who are great at school who have all these qualities as well, but the truth is the correlation between school performance and workplace performance is complicated.

I think that there are a lot of misconceptions about how easy it is to get extended time, and people who have never struggled with LDs just don't really get it.[/quote]

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