DeeDee,
I do really appreciate your thoughts. Obviously you've been there and done it. Without a doubt our sons are very similar! I do appreciate hearing your experiences. I'm looking forward to hearing the neuropsych eval (have been needing to hear it for a long long time). I've worked though enough on this journey to be ok with any diagnosis at this time. I just haven't felt our local psychologist has enough experience with gifted kids to feel that they're the best person to evaluate him.
He already knows he thinks differently than the rest of the kids in his class, but we've really reinforced how that generally is a good thing (at least IMHO as you might guess from my screen name). A well meaning teacher loaned him the book "odd boy out" and for better or worse, it got a discussion going about being different from other kids.
Thanks for the info on educational eval. I'll look into it over the weekend.
