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[quote=Anonymous]I first had concerns about DS in 3rd grade.  He'd always been impulsive and had difficulty focusing on reading.  We had some meetings with the teacher and school counselor who also observed him in the classroom.  They ended up telling us he was just young for grade (summer birthday) and very outgoing and they felt his behavior was not out of range for his age so we did not pursue further evaluation.  But he never seemed to really outgrow it and finally we had a neuropsych in 9th grade when he quickly started failing a couple classes.  Diagnosed with clearly ADHD-Combined.  He's just really smart, has good social skills, and teachers tend to like him so he'd managed to skate by with As&Bs until the challenges of HS overwhelmed his weak executive function skills and attention problems.

Looking back at our struggles with rule following at home and having to keep on him so much about homework, and knowing a lot more know about ADHD, the signs are clear and I really regret not pursuing the independent evaluation much sooner.  He spent a lot of years feeling like the bad kid in the classroom.  Once he started medication he told me he felt a lot calmer at school and that plus working with an executive function tutor helped him gain a lot of confidence in his abilities. 
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