I've deleted to previous posts as arguing with people on the internet wasn't my goal. I've got a lot of personal insight so here goes:

I did the honor roll thing all through elementary school. But like any 6 year old I didn't want to sit in a chair and listen to bullshit all day, I wanted to play. But my teacher talked my parents into sending me to a testing center to be tested for ADD, which back then it wasn't common practice to put kids on drugs so luckily the doctor told my parents I was normal, just more rambunctious than some kids.

Fast forward to third grade (still testing higher than any other kid in my class) I started bringing Guns & Ammo magazines to read because everyone else was bringing magazines. Of corse theirs were Teen Beat or some bullshit, so my teacher thinking I was a homicidal maniac for having an interest in weapons sent me to a school counselor 3 times a week for the rest of the school year. Which it was determined I just liked weapons(side note, as an adult I've got thousands and thousands of dollars in weapons and not only have I never killed anyone, I'm the kind of person who will go out of their way to catch bugs in the house and release them outside, I'm a real human terror.... good call Mrs. Sampson)

Fast forward to 6th grade, I stopped doing school work of any kind for apparently no reason and would only pass tests which got me through middle school with D's. My parents were confused as fuck how I would go from excelling to not caring but I was passing so they assumed it was a phase and this time didn't submit to any counseling(which was suggested). High school came and 'same old same old' minus this time the assistant principal made me sit in her office one block a day and talk to her, decided I needed to be put into all AP classes which I once again refused to do home work/class work and just passed the tests.

So at this point, at the suggestion of the school, my parents started paying some guy $150/week to counsel me. Pretty much all he did was have me take an IQ test, have me do intellectual exercises and discuss becoming an airforce pilot (I hate flying but didn't know that then, still am odd thing to get pigeon holed on at 15) well I got tired of watching my parents spend money they didn't have so I convinced them it was pointless to send me to a shrink. But the guy contacted my school and gave them my IQ/testing results and the school when I was 16 sent me to a program at a university to finish high school while taking college classes.

I had no interest in that, so I told them to get fucked, dropped out at 16 and went took my GED 3 months later. After which I did nothing for a few years, then spent a few years working around the country working on barges and rigs, then at 23 decided I needed to grow up and got a degree. Now I'm gainfully employed, working on a 2nd degree and miserable because I hate sitting in an office but I cope.

Point being, I had the ability to do well in school and didn't want to, was sent to see 'shrinks' on 3 seperate occasions due to other people's misunderstandings and in spite of seemingly having problems I just wanted to play video games and fuck girls (which is still all I want to do but now I have to pay off student loans--which I kind of wish I had taken that free ride to college after the fact XD) and while that doesn't compute into society as normal behavior I've just never cared about being 'normal.'

So after writing a fuck ton of paragraphs that probably won't get read in its entirety and getting way more personal than I wanted to, for the sake of pointing out I've got direct insight into this issue.. I would still suggest you just be there for your friend, maybe suggest things to help get him motivated, don't suggest he needs professional help and just enjoy his company. Maybe he's like me and just wants to do things at his own pace and will turn out fine.