Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Parenting and Advocacy If I hear this one more time...

Perhaps they should also change the law from being allowed to get a driver's license at 16 to an IQ test/personality profile... I am convinced that 1/2 of the population would fail... IMHO *wicked smirk*

How ridiculous. Not having a driver's license when your classmates do is supposed to be a lot worse than daily boredom, intellectual loneliness, and daily immersion with people not on your wavelength? Inane. I'm with you.

I think i'd respond to the driver license argument like this:

"Well, when I was young in my class in hs, I just had my older boyfriends drive me around."

Sorry, just logging on today after being too darn busy, but yes. He is. Most of his meltdowns are due to this.

And DS5 likes older women, so that will work for him... haha.

I can relate big time! His therapist said he will never be ok w/something 50% off but to try to come down from 100% to say 95 or 90%. A great example she gave was w/coloring. He never would color because he can't do it perfect. So she said when he colors tell him he is allowed to go outside the lines 5 times, then see if he goes for outside the line 10 times. This actually worked. But everyday stuff is a lot harder to figure out how to go from 100% to 95%.