I was active in this forum a few years ago when I was trying to figure out if my son was gifted and immediately after, but since I didn't find any good gifted programs where I live and he seemed happy at school I ended up deciding to let it go. He is now 11 and mostly happy, well-adjusted, and popular among his classmates. He is doing well at school but he is not especially high achieving and he doesn't believe he is very smart. He is quite disorganized, his notebook is full of doodles and he seems to always find shortcuts to technically do what he is required to do with minimal effort.
He is not especially bookish but he has become very good at drawing and teaches himself with Youtube tutorials. He has been learning Japanese on Duolingo and last year apparently he walked up to a Japanese lady who was visiting his school and introduced himself (in Japanese). He is quite goofy and likes to joke in class but he is mostly well behaved.
I have been talking to his teacher and they are going to have him tested again because he is beginning high school next year and they want to know where he is at. My impression is that he is pretty average at this point but I don't have many children around to compare. He does have occasional glimpses of brilliance (for example, last year we were checking the sugar amount in a box of cereals in the store, which was 9 gr per 100 gr and on our way home he commented 1/11 of the cereals was sugar).
His score at age 5 (WPPSI) was:
FSIQ 131, 98th percentile
GAI 149, 99,9th percentile
I am now trying to figure out where we stand, also because the person testing him this time won't be focused on giftedness.
Does it seem likely that he was just precocious and he is now just average?
Last edited by Isabel; 12/04/23 03:11 PM.
