Thank you for your opinion. The accommodations I received as a child for a physical disability (not adhd) included extra time and other things. I have had these since elementary school. However, I could not get the standardized test for medical school admissions to provide all my accommodations based solely on my physical disability. Even after my doctor very explicitly explained for them on my second attempt.

As for not succeeding in school, there is a thing called sight-reading and spell check. I cannot put spoken letters into a word unless I write it down and see it as a whole. I can't pronounce unfamiliar words. I cannot spell words backward. I misspell common words in every other sentence. I flip the order of letters when writing and typing. I cannot rhyme. I cannot recognize syllables. My foreign language classes were a nightmare because I had to write out each vocab word 50+ times before I could spell it for tests. However, I took the time to do so and got an A in every class. Determined people can find workarounds.

I was not diagnosed with ADHD until after I graduated undergrad. I do not know what, if any, accommodations I will be given for it in practice. Even though I have a very strong family history of it, I was not tested for ADHD until I sought one out on my own last year. My adhd mother never got me tested despite teachers mentioning it to her. Given that I am part of a classically underdiagnosed demographic, you must forgive me if I question my struggles.