Originally Posted by spiritedmama
ds9 is getting dressed for cub scouts and dad asks "why aren't you buttoning your shirt"

ds "I can't"

dh "you go to a gifted school but you can't button your own shirt....."
I'd almost see that as a typical gifted thing maybe not just 2e or maybe I have weird gifted kids blush! Dd#1 didn't learn to ride her bike until she was 10 -- the same year she was in 6th grade. Her concern that she was going to "fracture" her hip if she fell seemed to be a big hold up.