DD2 has a VCI of 142, FS 138 and yep I figured she was bright enough but no different to all the other bright kids I know. We only tested her because her older sister is 2e, so we took her to the OT at 4.5 to make sir we hadnt missed anything - and the OT said he only has that much fun testing kids when (paranoid) parents bring in perfectly normal younger sibs of kids with issues, that she was bordering on gifted, needed to be in school and should have an Ed psych eval.
She was an early talker, walker, deep thinker, but was not an early reader and didn't like to talk to most people so we didn't get comments and preschool were adamant she was nothing special even after testing. We figured we were bright but had no idea we were "gifted" and she's rather like us so we figured she was normal... Her most commented on behavior as a baby/toddler was the extreme baby proofing required due to her intense drive to explore. I can't count the number of time people's so called baby proofing failed to contain her in under 5 minutes, followed by "wow no kid's ever got into that before!" but this sort of thing is viewed as troublesome not gifted...
We've just found out she needs glasses (tracking and convergence not standard eyesight issues), which probably explains her not learning to read, given she's known the alphabet in and out of order by sound and name since 2.
So yes I have a 140ish kid who I thought was "normal", most of the kids i know well probably sit around 120+ though, skewed cohort...
