NCPMom, You made me smile. I have 4 kids who are very different. 2 are gifted and 2 struggle in school. They all think both my husband and I are weird and think each other are weird in different ways. We like to emphasize how God made each of us so unique with different abilities and personalities and that's really cool. We take the approach of why would anyone try to be like other people when being yourself is so much fun! My DD10 sounds a lot like your son.