If the child is having enough difficulty in living to truly have these disorders, then it would be doing a disservice not to treat the problem properly. It is important to differentiate between a child who is really in trouble, and one that has parents or teachers with unrealistic expectations. Although the latter can and sometimes does lead to the former. With any and all problems involving children, it is better to keep in mind that diagnoses are more of a description of what is going on, rather than a definitive label. Most of the time the child is merely the identified patient, that a system that isn't working holds up as the evidence that something is wrong here. Medicating the child almost never solves the problem.