Or not?
The thing is - they MUST deal with mental conditions, and often (at least) pretend to be sympathetic to them. They have to accommodate students with mental conditions - after all - it's required by law. Some of them even LIKE students with particular mental conditions
But at the same time, they're EXTREMELY lawful. And sometimes, the law is not kind to those who are not neurotypical. And they get OFFENDED if you don't go by what's expected of people.
This is why I avoid all of my old teachers (even though I'm very sad about it and am very grateful to them - but it has to be done). They were VERY nice to me, and I was probably their favorite student, because I REALLY wanted to interact with them rather than with the other kids. But at the same time, the fundamental problem was that I would have learned faster if I had simply self-studied things, rather than went in a classroom. And if I told that to them, they wouldn't like it at all. This is also why I had a communication breakdown with a counselor, because she got offended when I tried to obtain ADD drugs through illicit means (even though i truly needed the drugs, and later obtained a diagnosis, though only after some more time and A LOT of pain).
Academic professors might be different, but it's a somewhat different story here. They are required by law to accommodate students in their classes, but they generally don't have to do much to do that. And when it gets to research, it's fuzzier. First of all, they have less time than teachers, so they don't have as much time to listen to you (although is that really true? It's so much easier to set up an hour-long meeting with a professor than with a teacher - most teachers would NEVER do that). Second of all, many of them have huge egos (teachers generally don't have these sorts of egos, so they're nicer as long as you don't try to self-study your way out of the curriculum - unfortunately - that is the type of thing that is central to my life), and view people who need accommodations as weak.
On the other hand though, some fraction of them are open to the idea that you may learn more through self-study than through class. And professors aren't as lawful, so they're more open to experimentation
