I was diagnosed with ADD too. I didn't know until my teens. I also had other labels; dyspraxia, SID, cluttering, language processing disorder and OCD got mentioned. I was afraid of sweat and dirt then and hated getting dirty. My mom didn't think it was important I knew. She didn't know what was wrong with me either despite all the labels and said the treatment I was getting wasn't working. I was even on the wrong medication for two years and I had high metablism because of it. Then when they took me off of it, I gained weight. I craved sugar. The pills all of a sudden changed me when I was 12 because my hormones changed. But before, I lost my apatite so I wasn't eating. I got thinner and was more tired and had to quit soccer because I didn't have the energy. I had other problems too being caused by the meds and then my parents took me off them and also took me out of school. The funniest thing about it was, kids were picking on me and gave me a nervous breakdown, they all of a sudden thought I was so lucky because I didn't have to go to school. Ha ha. It was like it all came back to them to haunt them. Got punished for their own meanness by causing me to have a huge break from school and now they were envying me. Call that karma. It was also the same year I got my AS diagnoses. It happened right after we got back from our family trip.