So I'm wondering if we should talk to a specialist psychiatrist, but cringe at the thought - I can't shake the feeling that it implies something is wrong with my child, and I don't want him to feel that way. Has anyone done this successfully, and come away with child feeling better with no sense of being weird?
I haven't done this yet, but it's one of the reasons I'm planning to test DD's with a psychologist who specializes in the social and emotional needs of gifted children. I'm hoping to establish a relationship while they're young, so there's less of a sense of it being weird if we need help down the road.
Children get a large part of their cues about what's weird and not weird from their parents. I'm hoping that talking to DD's about the psychologist like I talk about the pediatrician will reduce the sense of "weirdness." I liken it to visiting the pediatrician even when you're not sick in order to run tests and catch anything early.
