From the age of 3, he would use words like "soaring", "investigating", "gather", "chorus", "hypothesis", etc. And he speaks so differently than most kids - "leave the door ajar", "quench my thirst", "harvesting snow", "good engineering", "scurried across", "slipped past", and so on. The other day, we were reading a Batman book and he said "Poison Ivy said 'divine', get it?".
This is my (HG+) kid, to a fault.
Mind you, I should add that DS is probably only MG. And quite frankly, I think most people and their DC on here are on a whole different level.
I felt nearly the same way you did about my DS before he took the WISC.
For my 2 cents: your child is probably more than moderately gifted. It is sometimes difficult for gifted parents to see profound giftedness in their child as the child may blend in well with gifted parents (who may also underestimate their level of giftedness... an "imposter syndrome" corollary of
the Dunning-Kruger effect).
I
strongly second this notion.
