Or son is nearly 7 and displays alot of the things you have talked aout with your son and he has been under CAMHS for nearly 4 years now, is on medication and has recently been diagnosed with amongst other things O.D.D. (Oppositional Defiant Disorder). He is now having 1 to 1 seasons too (only had 1 so far, next is in September). HE is extremely intelligent to the point the lady doing 1 to 1 with him at CAMHS wants further assessments done because his reading and numeracy are so far ahead. SHe said he is very complex and issues are coming out now they are spending time alone with him (yes after 4 years!!!!) that I have been telling them about all that time. IF you are at all concerned aske for a referral but be prepared for it all to take a long time. Good luck hon I hope they get some answers for you

hi  i wont be much help sorry but i have a 6yr old son whos simular to this except he gets upset if he hasnt got jeans to wear,he likes talking and spending time with older people(he also interups and talks over the top of people),he will often be found at my neighbours sitting watching tv with them(their in there 50s) hes behind at school and needs extra help partly because if he doesnt want to do something he wont make an effort.he also gets very silly in crowds and comes out with silly remarks or storys often untrue or very exaggerated.i did thing its just his way but he dosnt seem to improve with age so now not so sure??i would be interested to know what they say to you, if they did give you any diagnoses then the school should be able to offer more 1 to 1 ,they do at our local school.adams going to yr2 in sept so am going to see how he is then.sorry couldnt help more but goodluck.

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Hi it is hard to say to be honest, my nearly 6yrold girl next week is also very hard work, she fidgets a lot always on the go, she has never been diagnosed with anything i just thought she was one of those very active kids, she is due to go to year 2 in Sept and she is in a small group of children who are helped by a teaching assistant and now and again one to one she isn't sen though but will see how she goes on next year. She is quite far behind but i don't want her to get any further behind otherwise she will struggle catching up. She is at reception level still so nearly a year behind and even some reception are more further than her. They say her concentration is getting better but she gets so frustrated and angry when she can't do the work. The group is one to five my daughter being the only girl in the group bless. But your boy may be just wanting attention, my dd is the 3rd child out of 4, so i know sometimes her naughtiness is to do with attention but sometimes she does things without thinking, doesn't know danger at all. Is he struggling at school at all and is his behaviour like this at school? Sharon x

I have four children a daughter aged 8, and three boys aged 5, 2 and 1.  Today i booked an appointment with the doctor for my 5 year old as his behaviour is really pushing me to the edge along with my 2 yr old also.  He is vry sociable, but he acts the fool a lot he always has people to play with but they mostly his age or younger as he acts the idiot a lot and the younger ones find it funny, but older ones cant be bothered with him.  He also has odd things going on like he mentions smells no one else can smell, he cant stand smoke or if anything cooking he has to have windows, doors open as he says it makes him feel sick.  He wont wear jeans it has to be something soft as he calls it like jogging bottoms or shorts.  He gets upset at everything, he has huge tantrums and hits and slaps when cant get his own way.  He is vry smart but not very attentive and you have to yell at him to get him to even listen to you, in school teachers say he doing well but needs to listen more and he holds his pencil really wierdly.  He is not very affectionate but vry sensitive but not towards other people in otherwards he will hit and not care but if you tell him off he cries or if someone says something about him he cries.  I really dont know what to do he also says very inappropriate things like last week he told someone him and his sister had s*x although he doesnt even know what it is.  He talks all the time if you have someone in the house he just talks over the top of them or he acts the idiot, throwing himself around the floor, pretending to fall over etc,

Any advice welcome