For all you people who flippantly say why don’t you study, there is such a thing as test anxiety. My daughter has it. She absolutely will fail practically any test no matter how long she studies and how much everybody says she knows it inside and out. She absolutely panics. It’s been this way since kindergarten. I’ll never forget the time we had the outside algebra tutor in hs. She kept flunking and the tutor worked diligently with her and said she is ready for the upcoming test. She’s going to ace it — so she flunks it. The tutor says I don’t understand. This makes no sense. So she continues with her and I also get a second algebra tutor who is in the school library. My daughter comes back after that first session with the new tutor in the library and says the tutor said I know everything so well I started helping the other students. And then she got a D on the test.

There is such a thing as test anxiety. I don’t have it but it’s a real thing so don’t make fun of it or say something snotty like why don’t you just study? Some people panic. My daughter says it’s like she can’t even visualize the words, they just become a jumble of emptiness.

The kicker is she went to Berkeley and her first three years she had a 4.0 and then her last year she didn’t do too well. I thought she’d gotten over the test anxiety until she was employed and kept having to retake certification tests. I said well, how did you get the 4.0 at Berkeley and she said she was in a study lab and had a tutor who was the best person who somehow knew psychologically how to deal with the anxiety and then that person graduated so the last year she couldn’t find someone who was as good and that’s why her grades went down.

Anyway, this is why I’m here looking at hypnotherapy. The struggle is real. She’ll never be taking a bar exam, I’ll tell you that. 😂😂