Our youngest son (age 26 now) has ADHD and social anxiety as well.
We went through hell trying to understand what was happening early on, with little to no support.
As Photon did, we took the bull by the horns and took him to a child psych who helped the diagnosis and gave us a path forward. It got him through high school, but that was it. Any idea of college, trade school, or University, is not in the cards for him.
He is working, although it is a minimum wage job, but he has no desire or ability to push himself for more, and any job that involves the public in any way is a non-starter. He has to be sheltered. Everything he has is because of my wife and I help him push a little further every day.
Night and day from our other 3 children, its a difficult road but one that must be traveled.
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