Personally I think when your peers are worried what they are doing Saturday night and you're worried about the world economy collapsing, and global warming, and quarks and quasars... it's natural you'd be a little more anxious .

I hate to say this (sorry guys) I think it also has allot to do with how more gifted children are raised, in cases where the parents don't properly acknowledged their children's gifts/special needs (again, personal experience on this one).

I always thought it had something to do with them being at different stages of development i.e chronological age, emotional age and intellectual age being all over shop.I know when my son was in infants and early primary school he couldn't abide any form of cheating or what he perceived as being unfair. There were no shades of grey everything was black and white. He would never say anything at school but when he got home he was SO angry over things like the other kids not playing soccer at lunchtime by FIFA rules

Thinking back I validated his feelings at the time while also attempting to explain to him why other kids do the things they do.

He grew out of it by about 11. He's 16 now and we haven't had any of those dreaded teenage years. Hmmmm, maybe those early years were it.LOL.

matmum

My son drives everyone crazy with bizarre voices and jokes. He does not do this at home much and it is really hurting his social life at school. This is really the one thing I would just like an OFF button for.

DS5 has always had those overexcitabilities, some more than others. He doesn't really have anxiety much at all, but has sound sensitivity and perfectionism....and overal goofiness if that counts. Some things have gotten significantly better. Like he used to have major sounds sensitivities, even as an infant. He used to cry when our friends would come over when some of them had loud laughs, it was quite amusing. He has always had excellent hearing too...but thankfully that and some of the other things have gotten better. He still has significant perfectionistic tendencies, and I attribute that generally to his own self drive and to the fact that he has not been wrong much in his life (academically speaking, he is clearly wrong about other things and in behavior at times). He is in first grade and skipped K, they are giving him some work that is several grade levels ahead (and some that unfortunately is way below what they should be giving him..but they are trying) and he always gets all his work right, every single problem. He has never not gotten 100% on his spelling tests, etc. So when he is doing algebra or something on the computer and he gets one problem wrong he starts to get emotional at times and says "I am not good at this." It is quite frustrating, because he is doing so well. His school arranged for a math professor from a local university to meet with him recently to discuss his program and how to meet his needs. He said that he was playing a game with the math professor and that he didn't like it because he never did win and the professor always did. He couldn't figure out why he couldn't win, and then assumes that he is not good at things. he still loves to challenge himself in spite of this, but I worry that he will lose that if he is not challenged more.