Lending support about the personality traits you mentioned and suspecting they may be related to a bright child. I can completely relate to your story and your reaction to the test results. My DC is "incredibly intense" and was misunderstood by some teachers when younger, and also and was sometimes criticized for speaking out and being bossy. I myself have done quite a bit of reading about ODD - the good news is, DC did much better with "intensity" at school as DC got older. Unfortunately, we still see it at home all of the time and it is EXHAUSTING. Eventually, testing confirmed my suspicion that DC was quite bright indeed.
Well, the teacher no longer has to "believe it." You can show her. I think some teachers still think bright kids all "sit quietly" and do exactly as they are told. Some of them expect them all to be extreme people pleasers - and that is NOT the case.
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