Sometimes I think my child is gifted, other times I don't because he doesn't seem to fit some of the criterion for gifted. He just turned 18 mo.
Here's what I think is special:
1.Sight reads over 100 words and started reading a few days before 15 mo.
2. Knows alphabet, by sound and name (he says both)
3. Knows 10 colors
4. Knows 8 shapes
5. Knows all his body parts
6. Can follow 3 step directions
7. Fine motor skill of stacking blocks and balancing objects that would blow you away. He didn't color until we went to a restaurant that had thin crayons. I had been giving him fat ones.
8. At a young age he would sit alone flip through fine paged books and point to and say items like apple. One time at 12 mo. I asked him where the octopus was, thinking he'd point to an octopus on the train track in front of him, instead he goes to a pile of books, pulls one out, flips through the pages until he gets to the page with an octopus on it. He pointed to the octopus and said "Ooooo".

Here's what may not be so advanced
1. Didn't walk until the day before 15 mo. (he read before he walked) He didn't roll over until late either and didn't do it that much before learning to army crawl. He didn't do the traditional crawl until 12 mo.
2. He only says 35+ words not counting the names for the letters of the alphabet. He says some two word phrases like, I eat, My Dada, Mamma says, and I see,. When he was very young he could say Kitty Cat, Night Night and Moo Cow, but he quit saying those words. He also has lost some words like cow and key although he still says Moo. He says most animal sounds.
3. He knows what seems like thousands of words but doesn't say thousands of words. I know this because if I ask him to find the or show me the whatever he does it. Although he knows 10 colors he only says one out loud, "Blue". I know he can read because he will point at a word in a book or a word I write down, or a word he sees somewhere else and either say it, do the action for it (like clap), make the animal sound, or look at the word and bring me the item (like a plastic rhino for the word rhino).
4. He just now started kicking and throwing a ball overhand.
5. He can put a spoon to his mouth but cannot scoop food into the spoon. He recently started stabbing items with a fork.

I read that gifted kids have advanced motor skills and have large vocabularies. He doesn't seem to be advanced in either skill.

Additional info: He has a wonderful since of humor. He loves making faces and tickling my feet to make me laugh. He loves playing hide and seek. He loves being read to, to the point I've become hoarse and actually hidden books from him. Sad but true. I guess starting around 9 mo. he would bang on his closed bedroom door and scream and cry to get to the majority of the books, then he didn't want to leave. He loves puzzles, blocks, numbers, letters, shape sorters, music and climbing. He loves asking "Ta?" which means, what's that?. He wants to know what everything is and how it works.

So do you think my son is gifted?