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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have social anxiety and can relate.  Yes - if you can try to switch her schedule around that would be great but if not you really need to get her to see a professional about her social anxiety.  Even if her classes get switched, you should still help her out.  This is just one year that her schedule is like this, maybe next year she will have classes with her friends.  [b]What will happen when she goes off to college and doesn't go to the same school as her friends? [/b] What about after that when she starts a job where none of her friends work at?[/quote]

A lot of people have brought up the question of "what about when she goes to college?"  I feel like that is different because she will be around a group of the same people often in a very social environment such as her Freshman dorm, possibly a sorority, etc. HS is different because she's not in a sport or activity like marching band where she has consistent social interaction with the same group of kids. Her school is huge, and has a lot of different lunch sections,so even if she becomes friendly with someone in her French class, she most likely won't have any other classes or lunch with her. It just seems like she doesn't have The opportunity to spend time with a specific group of people for her to really get to know them, which is what she needs to come out of her shell and make friends.

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Don't kick the can down the road. It is incredibly easy for people with social anxiety and social deficits to isolate themselves in college. There is no guarantee that her dorm is going to be full of people who are supportive of her and even notice she's hiding in her room and maybe someone should explicitly ask if she wants to join them on a pizza run. Kids are exhausted, over scheduled, and seriously stressed. I went to a SLAC and I still didn't have much overlap of students in my classes, so I wouldn't assume that a small college is going to provide your daughter with a core group better than her HS does.

You need to help your daughter now. Waiting for her to crash and burn in college (and hoping that she won't) isn't fair to her. You know she has a problem, get her help.[/quote]

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