My destroyers favorite medium is water, but she's also fond of whiteboard markers. My best destroyer story is when I passed her on the stairs, and all she said was "Water." I went into the bathroom to discover she'd taken the top off the liquid soap and wedged it under the faucet, and turned the water on. The bottle fit almost perfectly so that once it filled with water, water sprayed all over the bathroom like a sprinkler. My destroyer is not identified as gifted, but she has a huge imagination.

My identified-gifted ds was never a destroyer until recently. He's older than dd, but she's the one who taught him how to pretend. Now 8, he's become much more destructive. Last week, he found out what happens when you climb your dresser and sit in one of the drawers.

My ds is so obviously gifted (early reader, obscure interests, asynchronous), I keep trying not to discount dd. She seems so normal. Well, except for the destructiveness (we used to call her Destructo), the imagination (she had a whole family of imaginary friends), the perfection, her issues with smells... Okay, maybe she's not so normal. If I say gifted, I won't have to use the word strange.