ConnectingDots - her focus even in preschool was always social and not academic. In kindergarden the teacher even had me take home alphabet flash cards because she didn't know her whole alphabet (even though they taught the alphabet in the preschool she went to) and they were teaching them to read and she needed to have it down. She did learn to read when all the other kids did, but she has never liked to do it.
She has never appeared gifted to me but I know she is (even without the WISC IV results that say she is HG). She has too much energy and always wants to make things. But now I can even see her starting to disconnect from the smart kids… her friends were all in the tutoring sessions with her last year. When she got into this one class (with the teacher I wanted for her - yay!) she said "but all the smart kids are in that class, I'm not smart." I don't think she's hiding though, I really think she has a problem with academics.
