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[quote=Anonymous]Can I offer a different perspective?

I failed out freshman year. It was shameful, humiliating, and one of the most traumatic experiences on my life on multiple levels. Turns out I had an undiagnosed mental illness which was wasn't actually diagnosed until 10 years later when I was postpartum, but I digress.

What helped ME was not being forced to work. That would have shown me that I had no chance in school and no future outside of a minimum wage job. Not good for someone already suicidal from their failure. Instead, my parents required I attend community college: they paid for the classes I failed, plus one fun elective a semester.

We did try counseling, but since I was misdiagnosed, it wasn't helpful. You're ahead of the game there. Make controlling her ADHD a condition of living at home or receiving whatever other support you're giving.

After just a semester of community college, I returned to my T5 engineering program and graduated. I now have a masters. Neither of those would have happened had I settled for working at Taco Bell.[/quote]

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