I am in high school and was diagnosed with moderate-severe GAD last year. Last year it had gotten to the point where I was constantly leaving school, and barely was able to participate in class. This year I wanted to try to do anything I could to stay in school, although it resulted in not speaking unless it’s partner/group work, and getting a starting the process of 504 plan. However, my english teacher can’t understand how bad my anxiety can get. Our first summative project was a presentation, which raised a ton of problems. She allowed me to record my presentation, but that didn’t help at all. I cried before and after I recorded it, and it was very obvious. I had an anxiety attack that night too. This was the start of a lot of problems which resulted in me missing a lot of her class. We have an presentation tomorrow and I plan on talking to my teacher about it. My personal idea was recording it and only her watching, but I know she will just tell me that public speaking is a life skill, which I know and I’m working on building my way to a point where I am able to do that in therapy. I’m scared she won’t listen and my social worker said she can’t do anything about it.   I really need advice on how to approach this.