good point, he may not be hiding skills at all. I am not sure if that is what he is doing. I just had heard that some kids do hide their skills like that, and was surprised when he did that on his paper. Another plausible thing he could be doing is just trying to make the assignment more interesting as it was way to easy. It is more challenging to have to think about how to mispell and miswrite letters.
We found that this "hiding" was really boredom. She is social and has always enjoyed testing in her exploration of how the world works. She did a lot of testing in first grade until she found out how school works. The next step, was loss of focus and less enthusiasm about school. We had to focus her on the more important parts of school and then the testing diminished.
That sounds a lot like DS. Thanks for sharing!
