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[quote=Anonymous]I would have been more careful about letting my anxiety affect my (now adult) child, who probably heard “Be careful!” way too many times.

I would have put more attention and effort into ensuring her psychological and spiritual wellbeing, instead of focusing primarily on her educational and creative pursuits.

Most of all, I would have realized that she could be highly gifted [b]AND[/b] have ADHD, instead of assuming that her hyper focus, high energy level, sleep issues, etc. were solely due to her intelligence. She had very few problems in school (everything was easy and done fast) until more executive function skills were required and she hit a brick wall in high school. By then, she had had years and years of blaming and shaming herself (which contributed to depression) before getting diagnosed via neuropsych testing right before college. Granted, none of her teachers or other specialists in K-12 ever mentioned the possibility of ADHD and we had been told twice that she didn’t have it.

If I had recognized the ADHD sooner and it had been addressed, a lot of suffering could have been avoided.[/quote]

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