"If he sounds qualified to you, then maybe I'm not crazy, gifted-obsessed mommy like I fear I am, and we should really pursue YSP for him."
He sounds absolutely qualified to me. Of course, I'm a total layperson, but the things you write about him have me completely convinced -- fwiw.
Quite honestly, even looking my ds's test scores, I feel like *I'm* a lunatic for thinking he's qualified for DYS -- he seems very smart, obviously, but not in the crazy highly verbal, highly academically motivated way that so many kids here are. Heck, he'd play Super Mario Galaxy literally *all* day long if he could, and I'm not exaggerating! But still, the numbers are there -- and I've always known he'd be up there, just not *that* up there. So anyway, I feel like a bit of a fraud, even though I know I'm not!
I bet one more set of tests will prove to you that you're *not* crazy. And I think you could put together an extrordinarily convincing portfolio -- can you include parental anecdotes? I haven't even looked at the portfolio option because my ds's handwriting is so atrocious -- it would only hurt!
Anyway, best of luck. Personally, I'd probably go ahead and do the WISC.
