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> A phony ADD/ADHD diagnosis is cheating because getting diagnosed as a "learning disability" entitles you to special accommodation. Only if you disclose it to
by true_religion 16y ago
> A phony ADD/ADHD diagnosis is cheating because getting diagnosed as a "learning disability" entitles you to special accommodation.
Only if you disclose it to the school, and request special accommodation.
If you remain quiet, you won't be treated differently from any other student.
> You're also a party to a felony, since you are either committing insurance fraud from the bogus prescription or are an accessory to fraud by illicitly purchasing the pills from someone.
Only if you have insurance, or decide to use your insurance for the prescription. You can always pay full price and be morally clear.
Secondly, I'd take arms against the idea that the prescription is 'bogus'. It was given by a licence doctor, and who is to say that you don't have ADD/ADHD? If a condition can be prescribed for purely on self-reported statements such as "I have trouble concentrating sometimes... more than I think is normal", then who is to say that the patient is to blame rather than the professional system?
In short, you've taken this situation and hyped an argument around possibility of someone already immoral acting to achieve the same ends that could easily be achieved through moral methods.