apm221,
Our ds12 skipped 6th grade this year. We were concerned because he's still a bit innocent--not naive, but more in the lines of if he's with a certain gifted friend he still likes to play pretend and build starships out of refrigerator boxes. He didn't really fit in comfortably with his same age peers. He wasn't bullied or even picked on, but I noticed he could never be truly himself and he felt isolated. In this new grade, he's met a few kids that are more like him in the geek department and are at least MG. I think he'd really prefer to be with even older kids, but for now this is the best we can do. I think when you have kids like ours it takes a long time, maybe until adulthood, for them to find their people.
