Is ADHD a medical condition? a disability? Both? Neither?

[unlucky83]

Got the annual 'check the info we hold for your DC is up to date' form.
DD1 (teen) has recently been diagnosed as having ADHD. The school have been told - she is now on medication for it and the school has a plan to help her - mainly involves telling me about any homework she has so I can a) remind her b) try and help her stop her chronic procrastination
(She has never been disruptive etc just struggles to concentrate and so get work done etc).
So currently on the form they have it says she doesn't have a disability or a medical condition...
Should I change that to she does? If so which (I think medical condition?)
Is there any advantage or disadvantage to putting it on the form?
Thanks!

Yes put her condition on the forms, especially as she is on meds.
My son has ADD & Asperger, he is on meds too. They need all the understanding and support they can get. ??

We put it under medical condition. But then I think we only have one section, certainly not a disability one?

in preparation for a flaming...

My DS (age 9) has ADHD. With medication, the ADHD (primarily impulsive and hyperactive) is well controlled.

When he goes to football camp in the holidays or swim lessons, we don't tell them. We've found that when less experienced people know, they tend to either have low expectations of him, or tend to try and over-discipline him. Basically, they treat him in a way that doesn't help, plus he doesn't want to be judged for it - which he has experienced and not liked.

When spoprts coaches etc are told nothing, they treat him like everyone else (which is correct as on medication, he is like everyone else), and it works much better.

Obviously, school know. And understanding friends and family. But judgy people (including friends and family) we don't tell, as we know they will treat DS as 'broken' or 'damaged' which would devastate him. He can cope with them thinking he is just rather wild and silly, as they have done since way before any diagnosis.

I'm sure that many people will disagree, but this works for DS at the moment. He doesn't identify as having a 'disability', so we leave it to him to tell people as he chooses.

Thanks - it says disability yes/no? Then later 'please inform us of any medical conditions'. I think I will say medical condition but not disability as she doesn't consider it to be a disability really. In fact we joke that if we still lived in caves it would be an advantage! Even in the modern world it has its advantages....
I think more so she doesn't get 'forgotten' - new guidance and other teachers this year and I have already had a letter home about her not completing some homework - she'd slipped off the radar and the new teachers didn't know they were supposed to tell me about any major homework.
Serious I understand what you are saying - I suspected DD had ADHD for a long time but didn't get her diagnosed because I didn't want her labelled - but she was struggling and underachieving and basically getting in trouble at school for not doing her work etc...and she was getting disheartened -thought she might drop out altogether...
When she was diagnosed she told everyone - I think it was a relief for her - she said herself it wasn't an excuse but it was an explanation!
I mentioned it to people and they said things like 'oh no how awful for her' - but I and she really don't see it like that... she might be a bit different and school is hellish for her - really difficult - but it doesn't need to hold her back in life...it just means she need to find something career wise to hold her interest, not just chained to a desk and she will excel.