I do apologize for not wording it n a way that better conveyed what I was trying to say. It seems to have portrayed a message I was not trying to deliver.
My statement was pertaining to all of the intelligent kids I knew growing up who were never recognized as such by the schools and were deemed as having fictitious disorders and pumped full of meds and turned into zombies, the testimonies of parents who have confirmed as much, the educational researchers I have listened to, as well as pediatricians that play along (thank God some don't), and the parents who rely on the schools to instill moral values, social values, etc. I am sincerely glad your daughter's experiences were different than that as I can't imagine the effort it took both on behalf of her parents and the teachers that understood and accommodated her needs.