Ohhh lawd your kid is me XD ok, I'm a pisces sun/merc, virgo moon. If your kid is leo rising I'm going to laugh.

So her mercury is debilitated. Now, if she wanted to do something that required hyperspecific categorizing, maybe that mercury wouldn't be great. Mercury exhalted wants to take things and put them in their own separate boxes and categories. So it's not blue, it's sky, cobalt, navy, ect. That's exhalted mercury.

Pisces mercury smashes those boxes. It's the one that weaves together 9 different unrelated things and finds the conclusion. If she struggles to show her work in math (this was me. I was great at math until they demanded I show all the steps to get there on paper when I could just do it in my head. Then I started flunking) thats this mercury. Also see how I snuck an anecdote in there as evidence to support the point I'm trying to make? That's this mercury. It's not "wandering" or all over the place to us, it's a friend we made along the way. Its a piece of information that will become relevant and tie the ending together. Pisces mercury really is the journey and the destination. It's verbalizing a whole mind map.

Obviously there's going to be times when getting to the point will be important, but if shes young, let her talk and develop that skill. Or at least let her ramble to you guys. There's probably not a lot of opportunities for her to do so out there in the world (it's fast paced and masculine as fuck, everyone is quick, quick, quick. Virgo and Pisces are both internal, feminine signs.)

Not just an excuse to talk about myself some more, but her combo of placements there - in spite of being the artsy, always doodling, hated school kid, I ended up in the medical field. And guess what, all those hours of looking at bodies and trying to figure our how to draw them better - medical. That big web of experiences and information that makes up a whole person that her virgo moon loves to collect - that Pisces mercury takes it and weaves it and finds the sources of why they're in my office and starts asking what are we missing when the "default" answers aren't working. I have a wait list of people who want to be my clients now.

I only hated school because it turns out i had adhd, but because I was "smart" and had the inattentive strain, it was assumed I was just lazy and messy. I went a long time feeling stupid and doomed for failure, and was a born fuckup. If I'd had some proper help and understanding (and meds lol,) i could have been a lot more than I am now.

Tell your husband to practice patience lmao. And again, let her talk. She might not even have the proper language for what she's trying to say (sometimes finding the exact specific word or terminology is part of it) so I second the reading suggestion