Is there a good way to ask professors for a job reference after a bad burnout and a flunking streak? 😬

I’m taking a break from college after a really bad burnout, (let’s go AuDHD inevitabilities woooooo!) and have 98 credit hours racked up. I recently attended a job fair for the public school district where I am and found out that in my state 60 credit hours is enough to apply to be a paraprofessional, (from my understanding basically a teaching assistant for either special ed or remedial schools,) BUT the application also requires 3 professional references. I did really well for the first year or two, had a 4.0, took summer classes, speedran most of my degree very quickly at 5-6 classes a semester. But then I hit a wall where I stopped functioning completely and flunked nearly every class I took for a solid year (except for a language course for a language I already spoke at an intermediate level…) and now my GPA is a 2.49. I think I probably take about twice the amount of time on literally everything that my classmates did trying to work around my fun little neurological quirks, especially considering I may have chosen one of the worst degrees possible for my bunk ass brain (history) which required a copious amount of reading. I tried really hard to soldier on until the point where I literally couldn’t drag myself out of bed to go to class (a horrible mistake ngl) and I eventually just… stopped showing up.

There was other stuff going on too, like I had deadbeat roommates that didn’t pay rent/bills so all the financial obligations or multiple people fell squarely on me, I couldn’t always afford my ADHD meds because of them, my ADHD medication also sloooowly stopped working over time and the school doctor (who usually prescribed my meds) was pretty unhelpful when I went in about it (and I suspect wrote me off as “drug seeking” for asking about a different medication based on how I was treated and the way my prescriptions magically shrunk, even though I can’t prove anything.) School disability office was basically worth less than nothing from the beginning and refused to help me figure out what accommodations would help me, and told me I needed to tell them and they would make no suggestions …Which of course I wasn’t gonna know what that was as someone diagnosed as an adult who’d never had the luxury of school support before, so I just went without. Other personal life drama happened on top of all that. Had to manage without a computer for a year and a half and was writing all my essays on my phone, on which I could not format anything properly or do footnotes which made the writing process way more stressful than it would have otherwise been, if not downright impossible. (Happened during a final too! When I was like 90% done! I ragequit that one.) There were some programs for support through financial hardship or for getting a laptop, but they were restricted to students who lived on campus, which I did not. Basically everything went wrong and I kinda had absolutely zero support despite pretty desperately trying to claw for it.

Anyway, back to the main question. Though my professors have pretty universally praised my writing when I turned it in, my track of record of actually doing that is spotty and only got worse and worse over time. So I’m not sure how to ask for a reference… or if any of them will be willing to back me up at all. If I tried to explain my situation do you think they’d be understanding or would that shoot me in the foot? Despite my string of failures and overabundance of flaws I am still ultimately a prideful creature and really don’t want to put how pathetic I am on blast to them. Pretty sure it’d be unprofessional anyway. Should I at least be honest to my supervisor and ask her how I could possibly market my shambling corpse as worth backing to the other professors? Am I cooked? Or should I ask her about how the hell to get my shit together so this doesn’t happen a second time when I eventually come back? Should I just switch degrees when I do??? Help please.