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Is she on the spectrum? Girls are often high functioning, smart but a little socially odd, not as apparent as boys on the spectrum.[/quote]

I'm not exactly sure what on the spectrum means, only that I've heard it said on this board in reference to autism.  Our ped is a developmental specialist so I would think he would have picked up anything like that.  She just seems to learn things very quickly and on her own.  For example, she taught herself to read and at age 3 was reading chapter books (Magic treehouse, judy blume type books).  She is very into science and math as well.  She figured out how to reduce fractions in K (using a game on my phone) and understood the concept of multiplication at the end of K (could do single digit multiplication in her head - not memorized). She also seems to make connections between different subjects easily.

School hasn't always been an easy place for her.  She expresses that she knows she doesn't fit in and it hurts her feelings when even her best friend says she's weird and won't play certain games with her.

Over the holidays my mom even came over to me and said it was hard to play this pattern matching game with her because she was doing them too fast and beating her every time.  My mom wasn't even getting halfway through her puzzle when DD was done.

I'm just looking for options to let her interact with kids that are similar to her so she knows it's okay to embrace her abilities.  She doesn't always get that at school.  Any summer program recommendations would be great also.
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I think girls are often diagnosed when they are older, later than boys, because their high functioning capabilities often mask there is something wrong.[/quote]

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