At one point his long term sub teacher told us that she had figured out that if he appeared to be struggling with something and the teacher tried to intervene to help him he would just shut down but that if they left him to his own devices that he would figure it out on his own.
OMG!!! That was DD9 at that age TO A TEE.
(Almost to a tee - replace "shut" down with "melt" down). If left alone she could work out anything, but if, heaven FORBID, you dared to interrupt her train of thought/processing methodology you'd be in BIG BIG BIG trouble. (BIG trouble).
Not sure how I made it through those years with my nerves intact. Anyway.
A-hem... sorry. Back to the thread topic...
