[ She has her reasons to be that excited
This is the worst part. I have no idea what she really wants/needs. Yes she is excited but is it because there is something new that she hasn't tried yet and she gets to be with older kids as she likes or it is truly her need to be at that level. She is so internal with her feelings I really don't know how she feels... Yes, she is bored out of her mind. Yes, she spends 15 minutes on her homework jotting down something really fast and no thoughts put into. Yes, she disengaged from her studies. But is she truly unhappy? Maybe yes, maybe no. Our conversations about school always have words "fine", "good", "nothing special". That is all! She reminds me of my younger sister and it scares me to death. When we were growing up, and I know it just now going through it with my kid, we were both gifted. I am a "normal" outgoing one, with some friends and ways to compensate for feeling not fitting it. She was the quiet one with no friends but no enemies and she had that unbelievable inside world to share with someone who understands (I am thinking she is probably one profoundly gifted kid...) Got along well with others but always by herself. She was absolutely miserable in her life but because she was always compliant without issues and complains until she got to 14 years old everyone just saw a nice all-round quite girl, including my parents. She never made an unhappy sound until she was much older and all the problems showed up in once. She turned out fine as far as finding her people and has friends as strange and fascinating as her but much, much later in life. But there was so much pain in her journals that she kept and we discovered recently when cleaning the attic!!! I am aware of it now and don't want this to happened to my daughter... But in order to help her I am just playing guessing game at this time with no real access to her "inside" world. My kid is more resilient and internally determined to do her thing at all costs as far as I can tell but I might never know. :-(
