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[quote=Anonymous]First of all, being gifted does not equal being neurotypical. There are plenty of gifted kids with LDs so you could both be right. You also need to keep in mind that it's no uncommon for spouses to see different weaknesses and strengths in the same child.

DH and I had similarly opposing views of our child at one point. It's not exactly what you're disagreeing about with your spouse but not to dissimilar either. I was panicking about this diagnoses and that diagnoses and while DH agreed there were LDs he didn't think they were as serious as I imagined and that it was just a bad environment. I also thought he being delusional. Time has proved him right, not me.

I'm struck by one of your last sentences of your child being "fine" if he weren't in the DC metro area. A child with serious LDs cannot be fine in one place and not fine in another place so you shouldn't be jumping to conclusions yourself, but I get where you are coming from. DS is mostly on grade-level, but at our high-performing school but he's at the bottom. I'm not sure what to do about helping him not feel inferior and everything you mentioned. It's hard. DH thinks we should move out of the area. [/quote]

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