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My 21 year old son has had anxiety issues over the years, and he has never been tested (IQ testing) . I'm not sure whether or not he is gifted or not. In fact, based on his performance in school, I would estimate his IQ to be around average.
My 14 year old daughter is probably HG, and seems to show some signs of OCD or a lot of random fears if not OCD.
When younger she had a huge fear of being found to have a fever or to be sick, and was therefore extremely afraid of having to go to the doctor or to mention not feeling well to us. I don't know exactly what the cause of that was, but when she finally told me about it, she said that she didn't want the attention that being sick gets you.
My son fakes illness to get attention. (in contrast)
My daughter has a huge fear of eating food that has gone bad. And she says that, she's not actually hugely scared of becoming sick, and that she's actually not sure what she is scared of. So now she mostly wants to eat things that have no expiration date, and is extremely critical of restaurant food, might have panic attacks if she things she ate something bad, even if it clearly wasn't.
My son eats things even if they taste bad (again, in contrast)
My son (though not as much anymore) fears germs coming from other people, but in non-sensical ways. For example, he is afraid that the person he sat next to in math who left in the middle of the year had a disease that she gave to him, when more likely, she just switched to a different class or something.
My daughter might fear people if they are coughing, or if they *have* been sick in the past week or so, but not usually non-sensical things like his problems.
My son has panic attacks.
My daughter occasionally has panic attacks, but only about something I have mentioned already.

Anyway, I'm not sure about the whole OCD thing, but I'm questioning whether or not my daughter has it. She is missing the compulsions, but she has the obsessions covered. My son, on the other hand, has been diagnosed with anxiety and ADHD already around when he was her age.