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For those that have gifted girls, is it difficult to tell that your child is gifted? DD 12 is a great kid. A teacher suggested we might want to have her evaluated in first grade to consider a grade skip. IQ (WISC) in the high 150’s all index scores were in roughly the same range. Fast forward to fifth grade and a new school, they suggested an updated evaluation, a different IQ test this time, results in the high 150’s and index scores again roughly in the same range. The thing is DD is not super academic. She does love to read and has always been interested in programming. Other than that she is kind of a jock. She loves to play sports (and is very good at them), dances hours every week, is pretty popular with peers and makes friends easily. Her standardized test scores are always really high but her teachers remark about how “normal” she seems. Her peers and teachers seem shocked when she wins any academic awards. I don’t know if it is masking and I should be concerned or just not worry about it? FWIW her school does not have any kind of gifted education so she has never received anything. She has done a few things through JH CTY though.