There is an article somewhere on Hoagies that I read when investigating what we saw with DS several years ago that says parents are actually very good predictors of giftedness but perhaps that is at the more extreme ranges rather than normal levels of gifted?
With DS at first we thought he was smart, sort of regular gifted like his parents. Then thought must not be seeing what I think I am seeing. Then was scared of what I was seeing. Then got him tested first at 4.5 then at 6. Both times he got DYS scores but you could also see what we now know at his 2e issues. Lower scores in areas we wouldn't have expected as he presents as more globally gifted, although he has his areas where he just blows you away.
He actually took a 3rd test - and had an ear infection blow up in the middle of it - had a fever by the end of testing and ended up a standard dev lower overall, but bizarrely still got the hard questions right but kept getting the easy ones wrong. The psych was so frustrated by him, thought he had a real attitude problem until we met to discuss a week later and explained that he had a 104 fever!! Funny though that being ill makes him intolerant of simple q's rather than unable to figure out harder ones!
So I guess we kind of always knew but the scores put a label on him that at first was wow that's cool and impressive, then wow that's scary cause it will need a lot of help, then hey it's just who he is. Although in some areas I don't think the scores really captured what he can do, but it's just a test so how could it.
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