The psychiatrist said that he is clearly gifted but I still have those moments when it hits me in the gut (all of the anxiety about his future)and I think, "Maybe we are all wrong?" Many of my friends are teachers in the lower grades and they sometimes give me scary looks and say things like, "I have kids in the first grade who can't do that [insert something academic]."
Yeah, my mother teaches 2nd grade and she has also been saying that about DD since DD was 3 or 4.
My DD has SPD and is very gifted, so you can definitely have both things going on. I have found, in general, people like psychiatrists and therapists who frequently work with kids to be very quick to notice and acknowledge that DD is very gifted.
