When do you decide that your kid needs an evaluation for ADHD? How does the process usually go? I’ve tried to hold off as long as possible and idk if it benefits her or hurts her. It’s so hard when you just want the best for tour kid but need to decide is the best thing to do medicate your kid to numb them down to zombie mode? The whole daunting, “let’s try this and this for 30-90 days and then we’ll reevaluate” or just adapt to THEM, the only problem is that the world doesn’t easily adapt to children who aren’t “normal”. My daughter is 8, she is very hyper, always has been. I didn’t really notice it until people stopped baby sitting, and then as time passed, I started to think back to the comments, “oh girl, I thought my daughter was crazy and loud” “is she always like this?” “Omg your daughter is always on 100%” with a sarcastic joking tone but really, they’re serious. I took her to a place when she was 3, I sat with the therapist for 20 mins, they talked to me didn’t speak a word to my kid and she ended the evaluation with “ok, she had ADHD, come back next week to get her meds” like what? They didn’t even speak to her.

Im torn, my daughter IS a handful, and idk if I need to come to terms or if I’ve just become so immune to it. The most recent comment i got was from her sitter right before school ended in May/June, I picked her up and the sitter is a mom of one of my daughters classmates who picks her up some days after school and keeps her home until I can get her. She yells out “have a good night now my house will be quiet!” But then she laughs and I didn’t even smile. I think it took me a few minutes to process what she had just said.

This morning my daughter was up at 5:45 am, after going to bed at like 11/12 bcus I let her have company last night for a sleepover. She woke the other little girl up and they were up so early watching TV. At 5:45! AM! I just realized it’s become a bit much. She’s always in need of constant attention and focus on her, she always needs to be doing something. Please help! I don’t want to hurt her but I also don’t want this to hinder her.