I think there are people around here that haven't have their kids tested; but know they are gt.
I think as a parent, honestly, you know. I knew. We tested mere to help advocate for our ds. I think most people wait to test until there is a need, a benefit to the child. Otherwise, you just follow your dc's lead and enjoy:)
Yup.
My DD is almost certainly PG.
We've never tested her, so we don't know.
But her intellectual development places her most solidly into "quite able college student" range most comfortably, and she is 14.
We were grossly mistaken about her when she was tiny. We thought MG at that point. Then she learned to read-- and the trajectory was simply superhuman. Nobody who ISN'T EG can
master a complex domain like that with THAT little practice in that short a period of time. When I say "learned to" read, what I mean is, from phonetically controlled Bob books to adult level material in a matter of months, and at an age where many children lack the capacity to learn even with a lot of targeted instruction.
Kids who are autodidacts are
really easy to spot.
The ones who aren't, and who are socially adroit, tend to be tougher, in my experience with my DD, because those kids only "show" facets of themselves that match others' criteria/expectations at any one time. Who expects a conversation about existential philosophy with a 7yo?? Nobody-- and my kid was one that would immediately adjust to that flicker of cognitive dissonance in a listener...
Ahhh-- no meaning-of-life stuff, then... right-- Legos and Care Bears it is. These are the kids that run through elementary school without anyone REALIZING that they aren't
learning the material as they go (because they already know it)-- just 'demonstrating' it.
