Thank you so much everyone, it does so help when people GET it.

To clarify, I totally agree with everyone who points out there must be more issues at play than just sports, there is self loathing and general discontent with his life and w are trying to address that as well. It's just that there is not much I can do on the schooling front - those weeks of revision before summer vacation drove him nuts, and there is another year to go before the highly acclaimed gifted program in middle school starts, but once we agreed that he was not ready to start middle school at eight, that was it for more accommodation at this point. I guess his teacher (looped for next year as well) does what she can, but to's not enough, never will be. But: he does like his school and his teacher, does have friends, does play dates, gets invited to the occasional birthday party and the teacher assures me is not an outsider, merely socially somewhat on the fringes.

He does not get teased for being good at maths, I think he does get some grudging respect even, sort of an acceptance of the absent minded professor type. I do not think he is actually being bullied. But he did complain that no one would ever get any grief from others for being bad at maths, maths always happening in tightly controlled situations in the classroom, whereas sports happens at recess and during PE class and apparently kids find space to be mean in these settings. I think he is spot on, really - wonder what would have happened if he'd tried to refuse to "team up and play" with the kid he was forced to do a science project with for being useless, the way kids get to reject others for sports teams during recess and PE...

Talking about PE, none of his difficulties have ever warranted a real honest to god diagnosis, it's always been an also ran in an otherwise clean bill of health. He's been evaluated by a neurologist, an orthopedist, a PT, an OT. I have insisted on both PT and OT sessions, got them paid by insurance, too, that's not the issue. It's all borderline, low end of normal, blah blah, we cold keep going, can't hurt, but probably won't help...He's fully functional after all, does great on school except for PE, swims, bikes, runs...
I am convinced it's the combination of all these borderline physical issues that kills him.

Gotta go, but will be back and address more of your wonderful posts!

Last edited by Tigerle; 08/11/15 02:51 PM.