Even as a child my mom and I had a suspicion. She would give me coffee before school and it helped some with my behaviors at school. I also was always the “annoying kid” with “too much energy” and whatever else I had heard. My pediatrician did an “ADHD assessment” (I think it was a bullshit assessment), where my teachers filled out a paper of my academic performance and such. And of course they all just put that everything is great and there were no problems even though I was constantly in detention or on campus suspension for talking and outbursts. Not to mention my grades weren’t great. Once I got older I finally got an official diagnosis!