Is this ADHD

[Cherryblossom200]

Hiya,

My DD is undiagnosed at the moment, but I have the forms to complete for an NHS diagnosis.

My DD has just turned 9. She's always been very talkative, she's never been one to sit and colour in for hours. It's short sharp bursts. But generally at home, she well behaved and chilled. She can sit and watch films/tv and play for long periods of time.

When I do school work with her, she's fine and absorbs things fairly quickly.

But at school she suffers, I think she finds the class room noise disrupting especially with maths.

Where I find she more hyper is when we are in groups of friends. She sort of acts up and is the clown, she says silly things and shows off. Then when we get home she's back to normal again!

No idea what this is?

I wouldn't say that your post is ringing huge bells with me for ADHD. A lot of what you have outlined would fall well within the norms for a 9 year old.

What are school saying?

The school are saying there is a block especially when it comes to getting ideas onto paper. She tends to struggle starting off with something especially maths/english. Once she's shown something she is then able to finish it. Really strange.

She talks a lot, and has meltdowns if I ask her to do something which requires sitting down and actually having to focus for a longer period of time.

She isn't hyperactive, when she comes home she fairly chilled and is quiet.

Her grade in math/ English aren't great. But her reasons is above where it should be .

Only from what you write, I wouldn't immediately say ADHD either though obvs v hard to know without a proper assessment. Being really talkative could just be her personality, does she interrupt a lot or any other indications of impulsivity? The signs of ADHD are usually more intense than what you're describing and apparent in more than one setting ie. home and school. However there's no harm in filling out the forms just for peace of mind It might be she has some sensory sensitivities if the noise/ distractions at school disrupts her thought process significantly in which case maybe some provisions need to be made. Have you spoken with the Senco? My son has problems too starting his work and staying on the job but a lot of his focus issues are due to both ASD/ ADHD.

No impulsiveness, in fact she the exact opposite - very risk adverse!

But she can't do work at home with any noise such as tv or radio.

I am wondering if it is possibly she just is talkative. Because as soon as she's home she's as chilled as anything.

I've toyed with the possibility that she just gets over excited when she's out with other people and she hasn't learnt to rein it in.

What she does do it overthink things, blurt them out before bed and almost have a panic attack about something which is bothering her. It's not happened very often and only really started about a year ago. I'm not sure if it's just an age thing, where she's most self aware. No idea.

But I do want to get the test done to rule it out.

I'm terrible with doing boring work, I always have been but I hold down a good job - it just has to interest me! I'm not hyper active, but I am out going. So I guess you could just put it down to our personalities.

Also another thing to point out is she is never disruptive at school, she follows the rules and if anything worries she will break them.

My DD age 10 has ADHD and ASD. Personally, from what you've described it definitely doesn't sound like ADHD. Just a typical child