For those with children with ADHD, with hindsight what were the early signs?

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My child is at greater risk of developing adhd but everything I research says that the overlaps with normal toddler behaviour mean you can't tell until approx age 4.

For those with children with adhd could you tell earlier with hindsight?

I'm not someone with a child with ADHD but an adult who was not diagnosed until young adulthood. In hindsight, some signs from early childhood were being very fidgety, trouble sleeping and very restless at night (kicking covers off, including base sheet every night), talking constantly, not hearing when I was being called - I actually had my ears tested and was told I had 'selective hearing' - but I now know this is hyperfocus.

Ds walked at 9 months and was climbing up the curtains and jumping off the windowsills at 10months. He would put a blanket over his head and run around until he ran into a wall, fall over and start giggling.
Out of the house he just ran around. People told me to get him tested for adhd as he was uncontrollable but I just laughed and said he took after me at that age.

I got my test for adhd last week and passed with flying colours.

I did actually try to get him tested when he was younger but it was like beating my head against a brick wall.
He now had his referral and is waiting for his assessment.

Some obsessive traits at 4. Apparent processing issues from 8. Loss of focus often from 6. Not hyperactive but inattentive type. Assessed at age 9 but not diagnosed until 15 when reaching crisis point in terms of confidence/school work. Now medicated at 19 and doing well at uni.

Nope. Inattentive ADHD (not diagnosed yet but I’m 100% certain) nine years old when I realised as I was being assessed. Just put a lot of the traits down to personality.

I should say I had to pull Ds out of school in year 4 and 5 as he couldn’t read or write.

He went back in year 6 which he loved but then only ever did 5 weeks of senior school.
He got multiple detentions . He was putting huge amounts of effort in to get things right but he would miss things and it kept going wrong. He ended up walking out of school and refusing to go back.

He never stopped fucking moving. Seriously, he was like Taz.

My friend said I had Tourette’s with his name,

I would be talking to her and randomly shout his name every few sentences as I could see what he was up to and if there was a huge crash then he was at the centre of it.

Yes @PickAChew Taz is exactly right! Just would not sit still. Ever.

Escaped out of car seats, push chairs, super market trolly. He’s calming down now but he used to just run at every opportunity. Escaped out windows. Nightmare.

He never stopped.
Always on the go.
Did everything at 100mph
Never settled to focus on anything.
Full of energy.
Would never settle to play with one toy (let alone and drawing or craft etc)
Very impulsive
Broke a lot of things
Thoughts would jump all over the place - spoke well, and young and lots of language but would jump from one thing to whatever popped into his head next.