I don't have time for a long post, and am on my phone so this may be blunter than intended but you have a highly gifted GIRL with sensory, social, attentional, anxiety and ocd and learning difficulties. You have labelled the parts/symptoms of what (i think) has got to be a global neurological developmental issue. Please find some one who is not just expert in 2E, but expert in highly gifted girls who are 2e. Being gifted can mask developmental issues, being a girl does to, being both makes it very hard.
It nice for the hospital staff who tested her at 4 that they'd "never used those cards before", its clearly distracted them from everything else - don't let it distract you!!!
Speaking as the mother of an MG girl with aspergers and a HG+ girl with ADHD (poor kids hit the genetic jackpot with our two families) it took me way way too long to understand my aspie girl because "she's so bright it will click soon" "but she makes eye contact" "but she likes people". All true, at least some of the time. She's also a gifted girl that took 3 years from 4.5-7.5 yrs old to reliably learn the whole alphabet. Who won't go to the beach because of the sand and sunscreen. Who loves people but has no real social skills. And who can be so concrete in her thinking that she seems quite slow (she's not). People tell me how lovely and well behaved she is, how normal she is, but mostly are unaware of how she should not be struggling to be barely passing school, or that she doesn't get invited to birthday parties or other kids houses, and that all the little ways she annoys and frustrates, irritates are symptoms of aspergers. Her tone of voice is off, her literal interpretation is too mild to scream autism but severe enough to cause daily disconnects in communication.... Her reading comprehension gets assessed as poor because of social comprehension issues... If YOU bought there was a problem there probably was. It's great that her giftedness will help her adapt (whateverthe problem actually is) but don't let her giftedness deny her a full and correct diagnosis for whatever else is wrong. Knowing empowers you to help her.
Last edited by MumOfThree; 01/27/13 02:06 AM.
