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[quote=Anonymous]My son is 5.5 and has adhd. He is also what I’d call a little quirky, but several doctors, including our current developmental pediatrician, have all independently said he does not have autism - our pediatrician, his developmental pediatrician, previous neurologist, a neuropsych and a child psychologist (I wanted to be very sure of his diagnosis before we began medicating so we saw many specialists.)

That said, my son has a little difficulty with pragmatic speech. With adults and peers, he will initiate conversation about something he’s interested in or wants, and can sustain some conversation, but is a little delayed in this sense. In general can hyperfocus on things and topics he’s passionate about.

He also struggles with aspects of gross motor coordination - like terrible with sports, throwing/catching a ball, and struggled with pencil group/drawing until we started OT. At the same time, he is the only 5 year old of his peers who can ride a two wheeler bike, he loves building legos, and builds incredibly creative things with his building toys.

Lastly, he displays inflexibility/emotional reactivity/rejection sensitivity- I.e if you tell him no, he gets really upset very quickly.

We’re already doing a lot of interventions (OT, speech, social/emotional skills group, support as needed for executive functioning at school) and he’s on Guanfacine + methylphenidate- but just curious if your ADHDer has this profile.

Our developmental pediatrician says it’s possible he has a non verbal learning disability, but too soon to know. His prek teachers say that he’s on track academically, but his evaluation last year (pre-adhd meds and intervention) showed a big discrepancy between verbal and non verbal IQ, which is what his dev ped flagged as a possible indicator of NVLD. Curious if other people’s kids with adhd have similar things going on. [/quote]

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