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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She also had anxiety, does that make her thrice exceptional? Right now we are just trying to process how all these things affect her daily life and learning. She’s very smart and can compensate a lot for the inattention, but she seems to have confidence issues and the anxiety combined with not paying attention spiral into “I don’t know how/I can’t do this”. If we remind her to take a deep breath and re-read the instructions (she often only reads the first sentence), she immediately dives in and can complete the work quickly and independently. 
We don’t know the actual scores yet but were told she was 98th or 99th percentile on all of the intelligence tests. [/quote]
No thrice exceptional.  Lots of kids have multiple SNs with ADHD/Anxiety being very common, they are all 2E.  99th percentile would translate to about a 145 IQ.  It's good you that you remind her to slow down and read directions.  The pattern of just diving into work and getting confused is very common with ADHD.  Always praise her for hard work, not smarts.  This helps overcome the imposter syndrome that PP mentioned because you can't control your IQ or your SNs, but you can control your effort.  Also studies show that effort counts for more than brains in the real world.  [/quote]

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