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I think you should get a professional evaluation, don’t wait!   You may be finding that college is much more challenging than high school for people who have trouble with concentration and attention.

In high school I had big trouble doing my homework but was successful because 1) I had good teachers, 2) I was very interested in most of the subjects, and 3) I had the same schedule every day and this regular schedule kept my head in the game.

So I was smart enough and interested enough to wing-it in high school, getting pulled along by the fixed daily routine and the good teachers.  But in college you have to supply your own discipline, and most professors are not trained teachers so you have to supply the questions, the dialog and the attention.

First semester of college as an engineering student was fine, worked hard in English, and all the rest was review from high school, so it didn’t matter that my engineering professers were generally not very good teachers. And I was good at focusing when I needed to to do my homework.  And what I didn’t know I could learn from the book.

Second semester was no longer review, I wasn’t smart enough or disciplined enough to learn everything from the boook, and so my bad habits of not paying attention in (or skipping) lectures caught up with me.

I was able to recover a bit my second year but by third year when the courses were tough it was a disaster (from 3.92 GPA my first semester to a 1.00 my 5th semester).  I adapted by adding a second degree (Journalism) and another year, which gave me smaller and more interesting class time and professors who where better teachers, and this also allowed me to space out my remaining engineering classes more.  But looking back, i was compensating for some serious issues and  it took a lot of good luck and a lot of pain for me to finish college.

Since then I have caused a lot of pain and frustration for me and those around me both at work and at home.  I didn’t ask for help and didn’t get diagnosed until last year, at age 49.  But I have been helped immensely by proper treatment.  It took perhaps 4 months of therapy for me to realize I had ADHD and has taken about 4 months to sort out the medication and get that working for me.

REPORT ABUSE

[chump]

I think you should get a professional evaluation, don’t wait!   You may be finding that college is much more challenging than high school for people who have trouble with concentration and attention.

In high school I had big trouble doing my homework but was successful because 1) I had good teachers, 2) I was very interested in most of the subjects, and 3) I had the same schedule every day and this regular schedule kept my head in the game.

So I was smart enough and interested enough to wing-it in high school, getting pulled along by the fixed daily routine and the good teachers.  But in college you have to supply your own discipline, and most professors are not trained teachers so you have to supply the questions, the dialog and the attention.

First semester of college as an engineering student was fine, worked hard in English, and all the rest was review from high school, so it didn’t matter that my engineering professers were generally not very good teachers. And I was good at focusing when I needed to to do my homework.  And what I didn’t know I could learn from the book.

Second semester was no longer review, I wasn’t smart enough or disciplined enough to learn everything from the boook, and so my bad habits of not paying attention in (or skipping) lectures caught up with me.

I was able to recover a bit my second year but by third year when the courses were tough it was a disaster (from 3.92 GPA my first semester to a 1.00 my 5th semester).  I adapted by adding a second degree (Journalism) and another year, which gave me smaller and more interesting class time and professors who where better teachers, and this also allowed me to space out my remaining engineering classes more.  But looking back, i was compensating for some serious issues and  it took a lot of good luck and a lot of pain for me to finish college.

Since then I have caused a lot of pain and frustration for me and those around me both at work and at home.  I didn’t ask for help and didn’t get diagnosed until last year, at age 49.  But I have been helped immensely by proper treatment.  It took perhaps 4 months of therapy for me to realize I had ADHD and has taken about 4 months to sort out the medication and get that working for me.

REPORT ABUSE

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