Broken Mojo? - 04/26/11 01:26 PM
I am at a total loss, I thought things were going so well, but I just discovered that my DD17 has not actually even been going to her college (dual credit) classes all semester. (She hasn't been doing anything else either).
DD said the teacher was sick the first day, then she (DD) was late due to traffic the next couple of days, so she just went to the library, then classes were canceled for a week due to weather so it snowballed, and she couldn't/didn't want to deal with it!
DD was evaluated, diagnosed with ADD inattentive, PDD-NOS, and situational depression (due to frustrations of dealing with such a low processing speed relative to her very high VCI), and given a trial of ADD meds about 6 weeks into the semester. She said the meds were really helping and making it much easier for her to write essays etc (she even showed me one of her essays, but apparently never turned it in).
She has been getting up at 7:30 every morning, getting ready and driving an hour only to go to the school library and read for the day!!!
I asked her why she didn't just ask for help and she said she was afraid I'd get angry (I do get upset sometimes, but I am a pretty mild person even when upset and I don't think I am one to be feared for any real reason).
She is very smart so she had to know the S would eventually hit the fan. I asked what her plan was and she said she thought she would sneak in on test days and somehow get through... but that didn't happen and now its 10 days till the end of the semester! It's like Scarlet O'Hara: "I'll just deal with that on another day"
WHAT IS THIS? How do I help her? PLEASE HELP ME!!!!
DD said the teacher was sick the first day, then she (DD) was late due to traffic the next couple of days, so she just went to the library, then classes were canceled for a week due to weather so it snowballed, and she couldn't/didn't want to deal with it!
DD was evaluated, diagnosed with ADD inattentive, PDD-NOS, and situational depression (due to frustrations of dealing with such a low processing speed relative to her very high VCI), and given a trial of ADD meds about 6 weeks into the semester. She said the meds were really helping and making it much easier for her to write essays etc (she even showed me one of her essays, but apparently never turned it in).
She has been getting up at 7:30 every morning, getting ready and driving an hour only to go to the school library and read for the day!!!
I asked her why she didn't just ask for help and she said she was afraid I'd get angry (I do get upset sometimes, but I am a pretty mild person even when upset and I don't think I am one to be feared for any real reason).
She is very smart so she had to know the S would eventually hit the fan. I asked what her plan was and she said she thought she would sneak in on test days and somehow get through... but that didn't happen and now its 10 days till the end of the semester! It's like Scarlet O'Hara: "I'll just deal with that on another day"
WHAT IS THIS? How do I help her? PLEASE HELP ME!!!!