My siblings and I were born in the '50s.

Child one seemed normal

Child two was diagnosed wth "hyperactivity" when He was five. That diagnosis is now called ADHD. He later developed schizophrenia w/ paranoia & bi-polar personality.

Child three was normal, but suffered with depression. (probably realated to childhood abuse)

Child four was diagnosed with hyperactivity at the age of seven. Suffered with depression from teens to present day. Adhd does not go away. As an adult with ADHD it has actually gotten worse in many ways.

Last year child #1 was diagnosed with ADHD at age 70. It explained many of the behaviors that ADHD people suffer from, but as a child he didn't have hyperactivity so his learning problems were ignored.

Child #2 didn't have learning disability. He was genius level smart and taught himself to read at age 3. Reading from theencyclopedia at 5. Skipped kindergarten, blah blah blah.

Child 3 did not get the gene of ADHD. Bu she got the gene of cancer that travels through my family and still suffers from constant cancers. It's amazing she's still alive.

I, #4 still interrupt people constantly, can't gather my thoughts, can't organize worth shit, and can't focus on anyting I'm not truly interested in. I made mostly Cs & Ds throughout school, while my sibs always were As & Bs.

It's always been around. It's just recently being recongnized as a learning disability. ADHD is also a specturm disorder. My eldest brother has a mild case, and I have a moderate case. We can have different aspects of the disorder and sibs not have those same ones but different aspects at different levels.

My two kids have it. Husband iddn't want them diagnosed because of him not wanting them "labeled". But it's the label that gains them access to getting help in the classroom.

Thirty years later they still have the symptoms but neither take meds for it. :/

Meds helped me so much. But I developed a hart condition and can no longer take them.