My daughter's OCD...to tell or not to tell?

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Hello everyone. I have a couple of questions that I need to ask of you all who

are more experienced than me about whether or not I should share my daughter's

OCD with certain people in her life.

For starters this past summer I posted that my little girl was doing great. So

great in fact that she performed in two plays at our local children's theater.

As you all know there are times when something like this would seem beyond

impossible, so it was a really wonderful thing for her. She enjoyed it so much

that we are trying to enroll her in the weekly classes that go during the school

year. Normally I wouldn't feel the need to tell the theater staff about her OCD

but because of scholorship money we are applying for I'm unsure.

The theater gives out full and partial scholorships based on need. My husband is

a deputy sheriff and makes decent money but because I stay home with the kids

(3 of them) and don't work..well you do the math. Theater classes that are

almost $100.00 a month aren't in our budget. So for the shorter summer classes I

applied and received partial scholorship help. Without this our daughter would

never have been able to attend.

You see everytime you apply for scholorship help you have to write a letter

saying how this money would help you and stuff like that and I'm in the process

of writing the letter now. The thing is that the theater is very big on

attendance at their classes and I totally understand that. They are especially

big on it when scholorship funds are involved and they make no qualms about

telling you so in the paperwork. I'm just afraid that we would be awarded the

help and then my little girl might go through a bad time and not be able to

attend for awhile. I'm just feeling conflicted about whether the scholorship

committee should know about this in advance of making their decision.

Our child is going to be 8 soon and has just started 2nd grade today. She has

done well enough that she hasn't had any really bad times or needed therapy

since late winter of kindergarten, so things have gone well. Of course with OCD

the only thing you know for certain is that nothing is certain with. So as well

as things have gone and though I try to remain optimistic I'm sure we haven't

seen the last of the hard times.

So if I'm asking for financial help from this theater for my child to attend

would it be the right thing to do to let them know up front in my letter? If so

how much do I tell?

I really look forward to hearing everyone's opinions and I really appreciate

your help as always.