Indeed, it is "diagnosed" by means of surveys and checklists given to his teachers. Personal and collective agendas too often make their way into the process. Behaviors, even the severity of them, can be misrepresented all too easily. Surveys filled out by dissenters, those who believe the kid is perfectly normal, are ignored as abberations. The kid ends up on drugs- often unconscious until they get the dosing figured out- and his formerly vivacious personality is dimmed and dampened. It is truly criminal.