I forgot to mention that my son's friends at age 5 were gifted kids ages 8 and 9. These kids are still his friends. The only friends who invite him to birthday parties and sleepovers. He can be himself around these kids.
The developmental pediatrician told us that we should make him do things with age mates and we did, but now that he is almost ten I can't see that it helped him in any way. This same developmental pediatrician told us recently that we should make him watch cartoons instead of the news and history and science shows that he loves. We had told her that people keep telling us that he talks like an adult and this was the doctor's advice.
