“... it could happen to anyone, especially someone with ADD”
It actually did happen to me. Fortunately, it was a 400 level class (smaller class size) and the Professor caught the mistake before I left. The reason wasn’t ADD. It was simply that I was taking a full load of college courses, and working 38 hours a week. I had gotten about 2-3 hours of sleep a night for about ten days. Quite frankly... I was exhausted and my brain was simply fried. My point is not all college students just go to school. Many have jobs and other responsibilities. Thankfully, my Professors (at the time) remembered when they were students and had a bit of empathy rather than sarcasm. IMHO.
In other articles, Dr. Adams has observed - probably with some poetic exaggeration - that the vast majority of his students “have ADD” or claim some other disability that prevents their behaving like adults in his class. If the student in question isn’t wholly fictional, and if he made a genuine error, it’s probable that the instructors of the two different classes could simply exchange the papers they’d been given. If the other professor hadn’t been given a Criminal Justice paper (Dr. Adams’s subject), then the student was blowing smoke.
I was interested (as a mother of teen boys) in the part about their having to check in with their girlfriends on a strict schedule. My Bill will be able to avoid this by explaining that his parents don’t let him have a cellphone!