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Reading these sound so familiar and my mother would probably tell the story of when I was in middle school in a big city and rode the bus 30 minutes to school. I came home and asked her to drive me to a new friend's who'd invited me over. I didn't have my friend's phone number...or last name... or address. The directions to her house included things like "turn at the parked police car." I remember adamantly arguing that it WAS a legitimate way to find somebody's house.

Yeah, our ds9 is like that... is there a list of 'milestones' gt kids are WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY behind on ? Does it make any sense at all to put yourself on this little metal thing that offer zero protection and hurtle yourself down a hill? Probably not, and I can't convince him otherwise, yet.

...when her first grade teacher gets so tired of hearing about Sonic the Hedgehog that she bans him from the classroom. And in response, your child writes and illustrates an elaborate story wherein Sonic is eaten by a hungry fox and ascends to Heaven, complete with seraphim and cherubim and mourners wearing black armbands.

How about your DS8 announces "Mom, you're a guiness" when you help him fix his "fuzzlodge".

Those are "genius" and "fuselage" for the rest of us.

Lol, so much of this thread goes for all gifties, not just those who are 2e, I think. My DS6 was talking about the einosphere, this morning - turned out he meant the ionosphere.

So many of these are making me LOL!!!

When he can figure out how to solve math problems in ways that the book doesn't show (with the least amount of writing of course) and picks up math concepts quickly but makes mistakes on easy things because the 2 he wrote was really supposed to be a 5 and he is having a "glitch day" and difficulty compensating for the motor dyspraxia/dysgraphia.

When he can express himself verbally better than a lot of adults but needs his mom (definitely not verbally gifted) to explain his disability because adults don't believe that he could be so smart and have the difficulties--that it has to be laziness and he is just making excuses.

His verbal giftedness makes him seem so mature that his adult sister forgets he is only 11 and that he might be extremely upset when she mentions that she can understand how some people commit suicide--and then doesn't answer the phone for hours. He had spent weeks trying to cheer her up after she broke up with her boyfriend and he felt so worried and helpless when she wouldn't answer the phone after making the comment that he cried and thought he might have said something wrong, but he was able to convey his feelings about the incident very well in the tongue lashing he gave her and he didn't let her just laugh it off. I heard him tell her several times, "It isn't funny!" and "No, you are not going back to sleep. I didn't get any sleep last night because I was worried about you." This went on for hours and afterwards, my daughter sheepishly said she couldn't believe she was in so much trouble with an 11 year old.

Talks like an adult but still can't drink grape juice without getting a purple moustache.

There's a comment in one of Terry Pratchett's books about his protagonist often mispronouncing words because she's learned them by reading, rather than hearing, them. My daughter felt an immediate kinship when she saw that.

Ohhh, we might have to "steal" this expression. A "glitch day." I like it!

Edit: Looking at another thread, is your girl older now... oh well, I'll leave it as-is

Is your little kid really a big Sonic fan? I go as far as writing informal guides to Sonic games and posting them on the net and I'm 27... Does she know that Sonic 4 is coming out soon?

Anyway, I am very talented with images, I created these two animations from scratch, your kid would like them:


http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/tt167/Angnix/Soniclittle.gif

http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/tt167/Angnix/creamani2.gif[


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