My son has all the same diagnosis. He's now 13 and we've also just enrolled him in distance ed. And it is the hardest, loneliest thing trying to get him to do classwork. He's so distrustful of teachers and learning, and has so little confidence in himself.  If I had known when he was first diagnosed what I do now I would have taken him out of school back when he was 7 and still my sweet, curious, exceptionally active (as in climbing up the walls, onto the roof active) boy. Before the school system broke him and me. Despite having a teaching degree myself I don't even want to be around teachers anymore as it just reminds me of the literally hundreds of day I've struggled and worked so hard to get my boy to school - only to have the phonecall half an hour later to pick him up. Of all the schools that refused to let him attend without medication and the struggles we've had with the medications and how they changed him. Thank you so much for writing the article. It does help to know I'm not alone, but it's so true that only the parents of children that are similar really understand.