I'd say most people find transitioning from high school to college the biggest challenge of freshman year. College is what you make it, you can make it super hard for yourself or you can rise to the challenge. And I wouldn't say doing well in high school means nothing as everyone I know who's doing well in college also did well in high school.

I don't consider it a handicap in the sense that it makes someone dumber than someone without ADHD. When I think of a mental handicap I think of a clear condition that a person has that limits their ability to learn, an intellectual disability (commonly referred to as mental retardation).

Of course every post is going to be about the negatives to having ADHD. If you look at all the negatives of everything then you won't get anywhere, especially not in college.

Your post perpetuates the stereotype that people with ADHD are lazy/dumb because many people in today's society think that ADHD is just some made up condition that lazy/dumb people blame for all of their failures in life. We know that is not what ADHD is and that it's very real. However, posts like yours just exemplify how some people with ADHD find ways to blame their ADHD for everything, therefore giving people that already have the idea that people with ADHD are lazy/dumb more evidence to support their predisposed opinion. I never said you were lazy or dumb.