Have any of you had any luck going to your pediatrician on the gifted issue? I'm taking my son in tomorrow to have him evaluated. I really hope this leads to something. I feel so uncomfortable bringing up that he appears to be gifted because I think people think I'm bragging. He actually seems to be struggling with children his own age socially and only wants to hang around older people. I am worried that he will feel socially isolated around his peers in school.
I have not much luck with talking about GT with my son's pediatrician. But I think the trouble was that the doc was GT, had 4 GT kids, and so what my son was doing was not so remarkable. I had better luck with the pediatric allergist, where we had an interesting discussion about why it seems that there are so many GT kids with allergies. But I think it's important to make the differences with GT kids more an issue with pediatricians - it's more than just learning things quickly. I believe SENG has some brochures you can request and ask your doc to give them out. I didn't have time for a full search, but I did come up with this article from SENG:
Where does pediatric doc fit in the care of GT kids Good luck
