This topic speaks volumes !! It is really touching that the community is opening up their personal life and sharing it with each other.
I was diagnosed with A.D.D. when I was around 10-11 years old.
During my middle school life my teachers insisted that I take medicine and that I be in special classes. The teachers repeatedly suggested I take medication because my A.D.D. was the reason I was not doing as well as the other students. I was eventually put into Special Ed by mid 7th grade. The problem wasn't being in Special classes the problem was/is that the school system in the USA doesn't take the time to find out why certain students aren't doing as well as others. If a student isn't doing as well as the other students most teachers will automatically assume it's because they are less intelligent or they have a "problem" and won't waste their time on them...That in my opinion is terrible.
By the time I was in high school I didn't even try at all. I was still in Special Ed. All I did was sit in the same room with same teacher and draw. He didn't care that I didn't do work and he just enabled me to do whatever I wanted. I pretty much drew in class every day for 3 years until I eventually got kicked out of my high school because I wasn't living in the district. The US school system would label someone like me as an unintelligent, loser and a drop out. The best part about that is that I can say I am doing a whole lot better than majority of the people I went to school with.
All I am trying to say is that you shouldn't let a teacher, school or a letter on a piece of paper define how intelligent you are. Make that decision on your own.