Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Twice Exceptional unusual upside down writing in preschool...

thanks, everyone! I talked to one of the teachers today who noticed it and she told me that DD was aware she was writing upside down, and was doing it on purpose (she said she has taught kids who will write some letters upside down but when asked, would have no idea it is upside down, while DD told her "I am going to write this upside down" so it does appear she is very aware of the orientation). I had purposely not said anything about orientation to DD since I did not want to cause any frustration or perfectionism. The teacher I talked to told me she was surprised at how aware DD was of the spatial orientation of her letters... I guess it will be interesting to see what unfolds.

makes me think of that commericial of a woman painting - and then you realize she was painting an elephant upside down.

this may be a sign that a child is more prone to finding the unusual way to do *anything*... from using a broom to long division. A lot of times my son does stuff the 'hard' way...but sometimes he comes upon some really cool ways of doing things, too.