My daughter is 7 and has always had excessive amounts of energy. She stopped napping at 18 months and was regularly up for anywhere between 12-16 hours a day from then. Now she is up at 7.30 for school but still struggles to go to bed before 10. She could be up until midnight before showing signs of being tired. We walk two miles two and from school. She does several physical extra-curricular activities per week but still is never tired. She cannot sit still, she falls off chairs regularly as she perches on the edge, crouches on her feet etc.
When reading to me, she can't make it through a sentence without asking a question - often completely unrelated. She looks as though she's physically struggling when I ask her to be quiet/still when brushing teeth and nothing ever calms her down. She struggles to finish anything - at parents evening I noticed her work book was full of half completed work with a comment from the teacher to please finish it. She'll get a puzzle out and do it for two mins then get something else for two mins etc - she doesn't stick at anything besides imaginative play.
She constantly jumps on her dad/my dp/her grandad wanting to wrestle, race, chase, play fight, dance, do gymnastics etc and is just a huge ball of bouncing energy! I see her friends too tired to walk to their car after school, let alone do one/two activities, walk two miles home, play for four more hours etc and I wonder if it could be ADHD rather than just her personality. What do you think?