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Old Sep 19, 2019, 06:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Salmon77 View Post
I don't know the whole story behind this but the thing about OCD or ADHD raises a red flag for me. Seems unlikely to me that someone would mix up their diagnosis like that, unless they were lying about it and can't remember which one they said before. I'd want documentation.

I used to teach and a lot of kids are awfully charming when they're trying to get one over on you.
That’s actually part of the problem—he won’t register with the university disability center, which would get the documentation.

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Originally Posted by NP_Complete View Post
Is it possible he has both ADHD and OCD?
It’s absolutely possible. The only thing that raised my antennae was that he took an example of one of the forbidden classroom behaviors towards others (rolling eyes) on the syllabus and said if I saw him doing that it was because of his OCD. It was a combination of tying the behavior so closely to the syllabus and the fact that I would have thought rolling eyes involuntarily was also a symptom of ADHD.

Last edited by atisketatasket; Sep 19, 2019 at 06:33 PM. Reason: Omission
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