<p>Does MIT give any support, mentoring, or assistance to students with ADD or ADHD? Are they discouraged from seeking help?</p>
<p>I’m fairly certain MIT does have support for students with ADD/ADHD, though I’m not sure through which. I would start by asking Student Disabilities Services and MIT Mental Health.</p>
<p>Yes, I can get the official blurb from the web sites, but what I am hoping to glean from this blog is some actual experiences and how it really works. Every school will have platitudes about what it offers, but I’d like to know if seeking help for ADD is encouraged or looked down on, and if there are mentors available and if such help is worthwhile. That is why I am asking on this blog and not through official channels!</p>
<p>I’m confused. Are you asking for the resources the office has, how the office will treat you, or how other students treat you, or all of the above?</p>
<p>For the first, you need to talk to the office. For the second, ADD/ADHD students would need to share their experiences - I’m not sure if any MIT CCers are ADD/ADHD. </p>
<p>For the third, I don’t think people would blink an eye if you said, “Yeah, I’m going to stop by the DSO for an ADD thing.” I certainly can’t imagine a case where someone would tell you not to go.</p>
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Looked down on by whom? Fellow students? Or professors? </p>
<p>Like Piper, I can’t imagine any situation at MIT where somebody would say, “I’m going to go get help for my [ADD/depression/swine flu/problems with calculus]” and somebody else would respond in a discouraging or disparaging way. MIT students are pretty accepting of people outside the norm (because just about everybody at MIT is outside some norm), and also of the things that go along with being outside the norm.</p>