I just assumed every kid was like her and she was normal. When she got into school, I fully realized she was definitely not normal.
ha - i'll second that! DD5 is our only kid, so we appealed a lot to our parents when we had questions - and they said she's just like we were as kids. so we hummed along in our delusional bubble for years, simply enjoying our lively little bean without a care in the world. but this year she hit Jr. K., and i have to say it's been quite an education for me! (ha - if not for her.)
so our family is totally cool with her (exhausted, but cool.) it's friends of the family and the parents of her peers that are the hardest to work with. i try very hard to be as circumspect as possible, but everyone knows we have issues, so i do get a lot of judgment for going the extra mile for DD when the prevailing perception is that her intelligence should take care of itself.
