Could my 2 year old have adhd

[Aftereights91]

As the thread title suggests. He's 2 years 7 months. Exceptionally bright, knows and recognises his alphabet, numbers shapes etc, literally potty trained at 2 overnight and been dry day and night since etc. But my god he doesn't stop! Constantly running shouting climbing pushing doesn't listen etc. The only time he's still is if something grabs his attention and then he'll focus on it for ages, but otherwise he's on the go constantly. Still goes in the buggy or on reins because if you try and walk with him he'll pull out your hand and run off laughing. Completely fearless, eg climbing constantly will fall off and really hurt himself after being got down and told no a million times, and he'll just climb straight back up again. He's genuinely exhausting and has to be supervised constantly you can't take your eyes off him for a second. I'm unsure if this is normal toddler behaviour or if there's something else going on

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It could just be normal toddler behaviour, but does sound like possibly autism. Our DS was similarly very active at that age, and was later diagnosed with autism. We did wonder adhd but he improved a lot by age 6. Not meaning to worry you, but as you’ve bumped the post I didn’t want to not reply.

I can say that he sounds like my DS at that age (now 5.5). He is a lot better now and I don’t think he has ADHD any more (sometimes fleetingly) but some days I do still get frustrated with the fact that he seems much harder work than other kids.

I’d say it’s on the high end of the normal spectrum toddler behaviour, for a ‘typical boy’ at least.

Nothing there really jumps out at me as abnormal? But hard to tell I guess. I think if he has adhd it will start to become more apparent as he gets older as a lot of the behaviour could be normal for toddlers but as he gets older it’ll be no longer as normal and you’d start to see a bigger difference between him and his peers
But honestly from what you’ve said he could just be a typical active toddler?

Even if it is adhd they don’t medicate at that age.

You could try Adhd strategies but remember children adhd still need discipline concensequences , rules and boundaries.