I always wondered what people meant when they said my son was 'so bright', meaning alert. To me, he just looked normal. As someone else said, it's not him who was 'normal', it's all the other babies who to me looked drugged. I'm still not sure that my son is gifted (he's 22 months and we have no way to test until he's much older), but if alertness is a sign of giftedness, then my son definitely had the alertness from birth. I can't wait to find out if I'm just overthinking or if he really will test in the higher end of the scale.