HPSP...autism/add

It's not a binary thing. If you were wondering if you had marfan's syndrome, and there was some evidence that you might before enlisting but you didn't act on it, then that would be fraudulent. If you had an MI while vacationing in Thailand, but you never told anyone here in the states so that you could apply to HPSP, that would be fraudulent. These things could kill you.

ADD is a spectrum, and is notoriously overtreated (or at the very least arguably overtreated). If you think you have ADD that is bad enough to require treatment, and there is pre-existing evidence of this, then not claiming this would be fraudulent. If you have a mild case that may or may not require treatment, then who cares? More importantly, if there's no documentation existing in any official capacity that you have ADD, then it'll be difficult to prove that you purposefully hid it.

If you have the attention span of a gnat, and everyone knows it, and someone has documented that, and you don't say anything when you apply, then you might get into some trouble.

If you have a mild case of ADD for which you may never need medication, then it doesn't matter. Again, I'm not sure how someone could have bad untreated ADD and still make the grades and have the academic and extracurricular prowess to make it into a medical school. That seems like the work of someone with mild ADD at best. But that may just be me.

I see this as a risk:benefit ratio. How much benefit will you get from treatment:what doors are you closing.

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HPSP...autism/add