When I was pregnant with my first child, I read a bit about gifted kids being more of a handful, so I was sort of prepared when ds was just 'on' 90% of the time...but since then, there have been things which I was not expecting, mainly his being sad about and 'hating' school in 1st grade (things are now vastly improved).
This thread reminds me of something else I read, actually about finding out you have a child who has down syndrome. I believe it was a father writing, and he said basically it's like you've planned a trip to France. You have friends there, you've got all the right things packed, so on. You end up being routed to Norway. Seriously, Norway is not a bad place to end up, however it is completely not what you were expecting. Plus you don't know anyone...the gt thing, it's a bit of that same anger, fear & confusion only more so of having found out you're in a different country; you might not even have your baggage, no accomodations so you have to scurry around and figure *everything* out that you had already so carefully planned.
I get the point that it is on a different level than finding out that your child is gravely ill, but finding out, for sure, that your child is different than most kids ..... it's a trip.
I'm not even sure I should be chiming in since I think ds is *only* mg, maybe eg, and for me things have been a bit more like Wren's story of wanting a gt child.
