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[quote=Anonymous]Disagree with others that you can't tell a kid has ADHD at 4.  Doctors won't DIAGNOSE at that age (except in extreme cases where personal safety is at risk) -- but that's because there's not much benefit of diagnosing at that age (they generally won't put them on drugs).  But certainly there are some kids who clearly are wired fundamentally differently than other kids at this age.  My son is one of them.  Everybody complains that their kids are constantly in motion, are hyper, blah, blah. Then they meet my kid.  I had a dad of 5 sons under the age of 10 commiserating with me about "busy boys" and then he saw my son and his exact words were "wow, he really moves a lot".  So i think one reason they won't diagnose at that age is that every mother would be in complaining her kid had ADHD, and most 15 minute doctor exams aren't set up to differentiate between the regular hyper kid versus the obviously ADHD kid.

In our case, it's not just a matter of getting bored and moving from activity to activity --which is pretty normal preschooler behavior.  It's that he literally cannot stop moving.  Knee shaking, bouncing, running, banging the fork, pulling his hair, clapping his hands. There is not a moment in our day that my son is not moving. Even when we are reading books (which he loves and will sit for hours for), he will be swinging his head around, shake his toes out every 10 seconds and will be pulling his hair the whole time.  There's another girl in his class this year, and it is super interesting, because she also clearly has ADHD.  They both have the same movement/fidget issues, but hers is a talking hyperactivity while my son's is a personal-space physicality issue.  Having read several studies on the issue, ADHD-hyperactive only type often shows up in these different ways in boys v girls.  [/quote]

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