@dorisena As I said, my son had ADHD and my daughter ADD. I discovered through them that I had ADD myself. When I was in school and did not get grades commensurate with my IQ I was thought to be a "lazy student" or an "underachiever".

Both my son and daughter have done excellently in the working world, he is a VP of a business and she is a content strategist for a major financial firm. They both have an excellent work ethic. We always knew if we could push/shove/drag our son through school he would succeed in the working world. Even when he had jobs while in school he was highly regarded.

I suspect the people you are referring to had more problems than attention deficits.
JK