My 4yo DD is incredibly hyperactive, literally bouncing off the walls from the moment she wakes up, constantly getting herself hurt because she is running and jumping all over the place and literally runs into a door when the door is wide open 🥴
Her sleep is awful, she wakes up more than my 2yo and has never managed a single night not waking up several times. She's been toilet trained since she was 22 months, but she has regular accidents where she doesn't even notice she needs a wee until she's almost wetting herself. This isn't an everyday thing, but it's pretty regular. She gets totally overstimulated by noise and goes into a total meltdown if there's too much noise, despite the fact she's probably one of the loudest people I've ever known 😆
She acts without thinking a lot, which ends in her siblings or herself getting hurt a lot, and I don't know if it's related or not but she changed her clothes 10000 times a day, and if her sleeve gets even a little wet from washing her hands she freaks out and has to take all her clothes off. She pretty much never wears clothes in the house because I can't get her to keep them on.
We can't do many activities that require paying attention because she walks off to do other things. Even things like playing snap, she can't sit down and not wander off to something else. She gets up during meal times to just walk around, and she can't sit still ever. She has regular meltdowns when we go out too, like throwing herself on the floor, screaming like she's being murdered and thrashing about, and she doesn't listen when I ask her to do anything even if it's something she likes, so she's a bit of a danger near roads because she'll just run into one.
I've got ADHD, and I know it can be genetic. My eldest has autism and also has some of these behaviours, but then I'm not sure what's normal 4yo behaviour either because she's my second child so I've only ever experienced having a ND child at this age. I'll also add her dad has autism too 🥴
I know she's too young to even ask the doctor about it yet.
Is this behaviour all normal, or should I start keeping a diary of it so I have all the info for when she's 6? Would love someone else's opinion.