Thanks everyone for all of your replies. This forum is so GREAT!! I don't feel as alone now because I can see that members in here understand giftedness and are not like what I am use to dealing with.
My son is great socially at home. He carries on conversations with his father and myself. He uses many vocabulary words and it very outgoing and energetic. He is also very affectionate, makes eye contact and has a wonderful sense of humor.
I was worried about autism at first because he doesn't seem interested in interacting with his peers. He says he doesn't want to go see kids, and he wants to be with adults or big kids. When around adults or big kids, he is affectionate, laughs a lot, very talkative, and loves going over anything to do with numbers, letters, reading, spanish, or sign language.
His pediatrician said he has characteristics of a savant, but he does not think he is autistic because he is affectionate, very emotional, senstive to others feelings, and has such a developed sense of humor.
He said he appears to be highly gifted and has put in a referral for him to have a neuropsych evaluation done. When the results come back hopefully we know more about exactly what is going on with him.
I am going to shop around for another daycares because I feel that some of the teachers are actually jealous of my sons gifts. They are not happy about him not fitting in with how they have set things up. It has become very uncomfortable for me, and they agree he is gifted, but don't want to be bothered with making any changes to accomodate him. They are bothered by his obsessive focus on numbers and letters, or the fact that he doesnt want to engage too much in what they are doing at the center. It is very frusterating but I have to at least try and find a environment that might suit him better.
Last edited by Isaiah09; 07/18/12 05:21 PM.
