aeh his organizational skills don't seem that bad, he can follow directions, if I tell him to go get his shoes on and brush his teeth, generally he will do it and come back. He can sit down and do boring homework on his own, unless something in the homework is hard and he needs my help. He doesn't like to do homework but he can motivate himself to do it.
He just seems like a normal kid (not a genius by any means, but maybe a little bit "little professor"), but interested in science, art, biology - that daydreams about 50% of the time- and that has separation anxiety to the point where there was a time recently when he wouldn't be in any room of our house alone. I've been working on it and he's much better, but even tonight he couldn't sit in the living room by himself and watch tv while I was in the bathroom with DD giving her a bath.
I've been scouring the web trying to find a description of a kid like my DS and the inattentive ADD children are described as fairly disorganized, they forget homework, can't follow multistep directions, etc. He's actually fairly good at remembering his homework, forgets his books maybe once every couple of months, and doesn't get off task once he's started (at least at home). However his teacher last year noted that he is impulsive, inattentive and doesn't track with others. She was a pretty strict teacher though. She's also the one who when I asked her if she thought he had ADD she asked if I had had him assessed for giftedness.
Assessor thinks he has strong perfectionism that triggers anxiety and this is the reason for slow processing.
But at this point I haven't found anything that I've read where I've been A HA that's my kid- hopefully I can get a copy of the school test and I will find a clue there. I am also looking to locate someone who understands gifted kids who can determine/rule out a LD.
