Same with me. I mean, they probably knew about it when I was in elementary school, but I was not at all disruptive. I always did well on the standardized tests at school, but I rarely did my schoolwork. Looking back, it appears that when it was time to learn something new, I paid enough attention to learn it. Once I mastered the concept to my satisfaction, I went back to my daydreaming. To this day, once I really feel I have mastered something, it loses my interest. I become bored with it and have trouble making myself do it.
I was diagnosed with ADD as an adult, but because of my weight the doctor would not prescribe a stimulant drug. Instead I was prescribed Straterra, the only drug for ADD at that time (and maybe still) that was supposed to be weight neutral. It still caused a drastic decrease in my appetite. No food sounded good. When I tried to eat, I was unable to eat much. I felt tired and shaky, if not faint, most of the time. It was better to feel as though I was senile.
This made me think that that drug might also cause my son problems with his appetite. If his concentration was so poor that he was unable to learn or his impulse control was so bad that he was causing significant disruption in class, I might consider medication for him after the school had attempted every reasonable thing to deal with the problems semi-intelligently. I refuse to medicate any of my children as a simple convenience to people who are supposed to be professionals at handling children and teaching them. The school is supposed to be for the children, not the children for the school.
It seems to me upon reflecting upon your post the teachers treat neuroatypical girls very differently from what they treat us boys.
Every time my mother phones me she brags about how well she did when she was a schoolgirl.
The teachers adored her blah blah.
She smiled at them.
And of course a ready smile works magic:
It is the only thing that matters in the universe.
A benevolent grin opens all the gates.
Listen now carefully.
There is a rang of order in society.
The client partner is the first to smile. Remember this.
Be you the initiator.
When you go to the coffee shop do not forget to smile at the waitress.
Less you have to pay a double price for your coffee cup.
It all amounts to the same thingie.
All the problems upon the globe are about one thing only.
Impression.
Why do they not teach the art of impression at school?
I tell you why.
It is the Gnostic something.
Instead they teach all kinds of nonsense.
How many tributaries Amazon has? What are their exact Indian names?
It is not that I did not like that kind of information.
I did.
The question is that they asked about the thing A when I thought about the thing B.
A crime in essence.
It is they who need medication.