So how would you analyze it if this problem were presented to you? It sounds to me like you are trying to re-enact your childhood. Bugging your t to answer an unanswerable question. What will happen to you if your caretaker gets angry with you? You have to force them to take care of you (something my longterm t once told me i was doing - very hard to hear!) or you will steal what you need to survive (klepto issues). So maybe what you are asking is really, not "can" you get a grad degree, but will you have what you need to get it? But as an adult, you will have to ask for what you need. Your t might not be your only supplier as your parent or whoever was. I still think its more an unanswerable existentialist question. But it doesnt surprise that you feel young. It does surprise me that your t doesnt have better insight into what you are really asking, and that you stay stuck here for so long.