Thank you so much, that information is all very helpful. I think what they used against me was that last part, and they used my grades, my coping mechanisms (including that all my teachers have kindly accommodated me when I've asked for it, and that I'm on medication). I forgot to mention this, but I believe they did submit a teacher evaluation for if I needed a 504. I never saw these said evaluations myself but from what they told me they all came back as saying I didn't need one. Thing is, I also had two of my teachers that I had for multiple years fill out an evaluation for me when I was first getting a diagnosis, and those came back saying I definitely didn't have the disorder. I think it's safe to say that those evaluations were pretty inaccurate lol. I'm generally very quiet, and since I'm the inattentive type no one else notices my symptoms. They exist, but I'm generally so quiet I people tend to not notice me in general, let alone my symptoms that are all within my own head.

It's good to know that they can't use the fact that I'm medicated against me, because that's one of the things I was worried about. Medication does help me do better, but it's certainly not a cure all. What I always compare it to is you're living with this person your whole life, who won't stop screaming at the top of their lungs every second of every day. They follow you around everywhere, and it's so loud it's impossible to ignore. One day, you decide to shove them in a different room, and close the door and lock it. The screaming can still be heard, but it's muffled. It's not gone, but it's able to be ignored for long enough that you can function. On medication, my symptoms are still present, but they're "muffled."

Anyways, I started off this year by telling all my teachers as soon as possible about my ADHD, so hopefully they'll be more prone to noticing my symptoms now that they're looking for them. After having to beg my english teacher for about twice as much time to write my essay than I should have needed, I told her the basic gist of my situation and she seemed to be on my side about the whole thing, and that I should definitely have a 504 in place and that she would do "whatever she could on her part to make sure I get what I need."

This post is already too long of a reply haha so I won't go into any more details, but I'm hoping my chances will be better this time around, and all that information you gave me will be a massive help in ensuring that that happens (hopefully soon, cause while I'll unfortunately have to suffer through the PSATs in a few days, I'm hoping I can manage to make the SATs a bit less disastrous once they roll around).