It's really tricky to find someway to mitigate the different expectations kids can have. The universal rule seems to be that eventually, unless they learn otherwise, they're going to think there's something wrong with them.
I can certainly appreciate that it's very important to emphasis that everyone is different and being good at something doesn't make you better but my experience to date is that our DS4.5 assumes there's something the matter with him and wants to be like everyone else. We've had to remind ourselves that 'gifted' is a very loaded term for us as adults, but for him, it could mean anything - even something bad. He's never asked for a definition of the term, which means it's an area of some anxiety, because no other words get past the 'what does XYZ mean?" filter.
Last edited by Zanzi; 05/07/10 12:55 AM.
