I think those of us who come from families where there are a lot of untested gifted people have a warped idea of normal. My hg+ ds6 seemed completely normal to me - all the kids in my family are like that and none of them are gifted (well none of them have been tested because it wasn't something people did and anyway there was no programming and bright kids can take care if themselves). i had never even heard of gifted until about 10 years ago.