ADHD in Childhood — Looking Back

WURS-25 (Wender Utah Rating Scale — 25-item)

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About this check

ADHD begins in childhood. For adults being assessed, clinicians need a sense of what you were like as a child. The WURS-25 asks you to rate, as best you can remember, what you were like between ages 6 and 10. It complements (and does not replace) the adult ADHD screener.

Important: Retrospective recall is imperfect, and many adults with ADHD had childhood traits missed by parents and teachers. A positive score supports an ADHD evaluation but does not by itself diagnose childhood or adult ADHD.

What your score means

Below threshold · score 0–35

Your retrospective score is below the cutoff of 36 used to flag likely childhood ADHD. Adult-onset ADHD-like symptoms are unusual — if current symptoms are significant, other explanations (sleep, mood, anxiety, trauma) are worth considering.

Consistent with childhood ADHD · score 36–100

Your retrospective score is at or above 36 — the cutoff that best distinguishes adults with ADHD from adults without. This suggests that, by memory, you had ADHD-like traits in childhood.

How it works

Thinking back to when you were a child (roughly ages 6 to 10), rate how true each statement was of you then.

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