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I thought it was strange when she spoke two syllable words very clearly way before her first birthday, but didn't give it much thought. She had an unusual interest in books and people said she would probably read early, but I didn't think that much of that either, but when she learned upper and lowercase letters and their sounds at 1.5 and was reading by 2.5, I started to wonder. Her vocabulary was huge, she was able to do hard puzzles with no effort, count, had a frightening memory, could identify shapes very early and on and on and on. She was also intense, actually rather hyper, so we had testing done at 3 and they brought up her giftedness. She has been tested twice but some part of me still doesn't believe she is gifted even though she is performing many years ahead of her grade, but then she will say, write, read, or know something that makes it clear that she is unusually advanced.