Originally Posted by doubtfulguest
blackcat - might he be trying to blend in with expectations? (and possibly feel that higher level work would be some sort of punishment?) just speaking from my extremely limited experience.


We've seen that in spades with DD.

As long as she isn't aware that most kids her age do X, not Y... then she is perfectly happy doing Y with occasionally brilliant flashes of Z, even...

but as soon as she gets the idea that this is NOT normative, she seems to retreat to the lowest common denominator in a hurry, and to deny that she was ever doing anything else.

It's maddening.

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.