I have lovely bright DS 14yrs old, doing very well at school BUT with a history of the adhd & OCD. He is being medicated for adhd to help with his concentration and after many trials and error he is happy with his doses etc. He has an underlying neurological condition (which I don’t want to mention for fear of outing) but for which the aforementioned are co morbidities. He has terrible organisational skills or executive function impaired and so needs a lot of support in this area and he is working hard to improve on it. This includes estimating time properly, remembering where he is meant to be, remembering multiple instructions etc. He has had episodes of OCD, intrusive thoughts and that is frightening but has received CBT and doing well.
He’s been talking a lot lately about what he might like to do for a career in future. He has lots of different interests. He had always said he would like to start his own business and so interested in what he could study at uni that would give him the right skills for that. However, he recently dropped a bombshell (as far as I’m concerned), that he might be interested in a Law career infact with an International element to it.. He has all the right strengths to build on for this academically. But I am terrified.
A career in Law for someone with his condition? All those long hours. Hours and hours of reading, cut throat work ethic in big firms. Basically highly stressed.
Please tell me am i THAT crazy helicopter mum? Should I just leave him be or should I steer him gently away from this.