DS is 11.5 years. He is a lovely bright, polite, boy. He has a brilliant personality and is a character. He loves sport and is popular at school. We love him to bits but he has been hard work from time to time. As a toddler was very very whingey and over sensitive to lots of things. I took him for treatment for a couple of years for "retained reflexes" and processing disorder.
Fast forward through the years, school reports are always "cannot stay on task, easily distracted, forgets instructions". He is usually around average, with a couple of subjects slightly below and a couple slightly above. They agree he could do better at school and put more effort in-but I'm not sure if he is capable....
He is end of Summer born and I feel perhaps slightly immature on top of that so probably 1.5-2 years behind some of his peers.
He has a tendency to be "annoying". I have to repeat myself so often, I sometimes get a sore throat. He will flop around giggling and basically act like a 4 year old sometimes. He has never liked being kissed or touched much although he will hug me sometimes and doesn't get massively upset if he has to hug someone (will often willingly hug friends/relations etc.)
When he is sitting at the table, he CANNOT stop fiddling with things, swinging on his chair, pushing the chair next to him backwards and forwards. Watching TV, he will never just sit. He flops and lies upside down, constantly swings his legs around-tonight he was digging his toes inside my slipper and lying all over me, then managed to knock me with his arm and I bit my tongue...watching a film is so frustrating....If I tell him to go upstairs and get ready for bed, I end up repeating it about 6 times-just walking out of the room, he gets so distracted by every little thing. I have to physically go up to him and take things out of his hands and push him up the stairs. When he is talking he will sometimes walk round and round the kitchen island constantly making me feel dizzy till I say "please stop" but he says it helps him concentrate....
In comparison, his cousins who are the same age and a year older just go straight upstairs, can organise themselves and just get on with it.
I recently read about the signs of Inattentive ADD and DH said "that is DS exactly". Because he is always kind of in the middle at school, I think that he has flown under the radar. I just wonder know if should have some kind of assessment. My gut feeling is something is not quite right....I just want to help him if there is something. If not, I would be happy too and just accept that maybe he is a bit quirky
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Reading the above, I know a lot of it sounds normal for children/boys(!) but I haven't gone into massive detail or this would be a much longer post!