Thanks for you responses so far Amy and Mnmom23. Your responses are very reassuring. The decision to have my son tested was a difficult one. He was being excluded from early childhood settings due to behaviour. His behaviours increased in settings where it was obvious he was bored. I felt that I had to get him assessed and formally labelled as gifted in order to stop people telling me he was on the autism spectrum. I know the two can coexist, but I have a lot of experience with autism, and know that he definitely was not autistic. Thus getting one label to prevent pseudo-professionals giving him another.
