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[quote=Anonymous]OP - I was tested to have roughly the same IQ as your son.  Whatever advantages it may have given me were blunted by behavioral and attention issues throughout my school years.  I barely got into a 4 year college and then barely graduated from there.

In the workplace, I've thrived and am, even by DCUM standards, pretty successful - though I'm no captain of industry.

Ultimately, your son's IQ is a single data point taken at a moment in time.  Like everybody else in this world, he's a complicated, multi-faceted person living in a complicated, multi-faceted world.  His brain may help him excel or it may hinder him, leaving him bored and restless in a world that doesn't run at his pace.  Time will tell.  But avoid placing any expectations on him as a result of this test.  It would be unreasonable and unfair.

As other posters have suggested, raise him like any other kid.  Expose him to various things, see what resonates, and support his interests.  There's nothing special you need to do other than be a good parent.  He's a person, not a project.[/quote]

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