Can a kid reach adulthood with an undiagnosed learning disability?
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Answer by derbedog16
yes
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That’s like asking if there is a fourth of July in Australia. Of course he will become an adult. But a full functioning adult? That depends on the disability. Many disabled people lead productive adult lives. They have to find thier niche. Then grow up, be proud, don’t let people stand in thier way.
Yes,the school passes them on grade to grade and just dismiss the condition as lazy.
Yes, kids can reach adulthood with undiagnosed learning disabilities. Some have a mild version of the learning disability, so it goes undetected until adulthood because the problem is not obvious enough. Some are able to compensate for their learning disability somehow, for example with a good memory, high intelligence or something like that. Sometimes it is simply assumed that the kid is lazy to study and not making an effort, or that they are dumb.
I have dyslexia and I wasn’t diagnosed with it until I was 20 years old. My parents and my teachers never gave it much thought because my grades were good, so they didn’t think there was any problem. What they didn’t know was how much more time and effort I had to put into studying than other students. I’m very intelligent and I have a good photographic memory, which somewhat compensated for my slow reading and helped me correct my own spelling mistakes.
I have a friend with dyslexia who was not diagnosed either until she was 17 years old. She always did poorly in school, but she was never tested for dyslexia, because it was assumed that she was just lazy to learn.