How do you explain to your calc prof why, if you are two steps ahead in class when they introduce new material, you just got an F on the test because you can not sit for even 1 hour a day to do problems. Meanwhile some kid who can slog through the problems for hours without understanding gets an A, then asks in class if it is true that Newton and Einstein hated each other. It's humiliating.

Luckily, contrary to the anti-med propaganda, the meds that allow me to study for 6-8 hours straight do not remove the described positive traits. Yet some parents would rather their children suffer than take "drugs", guess what your kid suffers enough they will turn to drugs.

We need to separate the traits into functional and non-functional, i.e. being able to pay attention to multiple things, as opposed to not being able to pay attention to what you need to, like starting a math problem and finding yourself in another room two hours later the problem unfinished.