Attention seeking or something else?

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DD aged 6 has been doing things that are not normal now since she was about 2.
Things include:
1.Eating toilet roll, paper hair and now soap...she says they are yummy.
2.Has bad attention unless its something she is interested in
3.Dangerous behaviour. somersaulting on the sofa.. hanging from bedroom door.. climbing on high windowsill and jumping off etc

1. Say no to her and then she will do the same thing a few minutes later

5.Doesnt really play with toys 6.Cant hold a conversation with her at all

When asked why she is naughty, DD says her brain tells her and she doesn't mean to do it.

Pre school, nursery, speech therapy and school have picked up on it and she has seen a physchologist and paediatrician and they both couldn't see much wrong.
DD is very creative and loves gymnastics.
This year she iss a lot calmer in school but still has trouble in groups and has some one to one. Concentration is still not overly good all the time.
DD has her paediatrican review at end of July ...grandparents think its attention seeking and DD teacher asked this morning if I thought it was that.DD gets lots of attention as usually having to stop her getting into mischief and hurting herself.
Just would like some opinions as to what you think it could be.Thanks

When she does things she's been told not to, what do you do?

Tried most things.. ignoring the bad behaviour...put her in time out in her bedroom....had things taken away from her

1. sounds like a sensory seeking issue (I think it's called pica).
2. sounds normal for a 6 year old (probably normal for most adults too)
3. could also be a sensory processing issue (have a look at sensory processing disorder as it will help with 1. and may explain the problem that she has when working in groups as it's so noisy!)

4 and 5. No idea

1. Depends on what you mean. Does she only talk about what she wants and ignores everyone else?

My son has a sensory processing disorder but he's the other way, so anxious. He used to suck his clothes and put bits of string in his mouth. He can't stand the hairdressers and will only eat boringly bland food. He's overly worried about hurting himself and is very oversensitive to pain and loud noises.

Hope this helps. I may be very wrong, I'm not qualified. I bet the nice ladies in Special Needs will have a few suggestions though.

Hope this helps.

What I mean by not able to hold a conversation is I will say to her "What have you done today?" She will either say something silly as a response or doesn't say anything and you have to keep asking her until she says I don't know or similar

Oh, that's normal. I used to ask ds every day (at the end of the day) what he'd done at school and he could never remember. This changed at about 10. If she's a creative creature she'll make something up that will be outrageous as it's far more interesting then real life.