Now don't ask me why they don't just give the kid a book and let her read it to see if the parents are making stuff up. This must hit some other area of human nature that I prefer to not consider just now.
Exactly!
I think that's why we've always been lucky with DS6 (clear back when he was DS2) having his reading acknowledged--we just let people figure it out for themselves.
At the preschool, when we were registering him, we said "he can read anything" and as we were doing the paperwork he was wandering around the office reading everything out loud, and by the time we got done, everybody was convinced--and going out to drag other people in to watch him read, too! He just sells it himself. If you have a kid who doesn't read everything he sees out loud, it's probably harder. It's always cracked me up when a new neighbor comes along and says "did you know he can read anything?" because he's been over meeting them and reading everything they have. LOL!
