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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MYOB.  My goodness.

By the way, learning passions and most of what you describe are evidence of giftedness.  Check out hoagiesgifted.org.  Tired of the culture of diagnosis in the DC area.[/quote] Absolutely. This would describe my child 10 years ago. I had to deal with so many "well-intended" meddlers. He is profoundly gifted, not ASD.  There was so much judgment about my supposed denial--as if I hadn't already had him test at the first sign of my own concern. MYOB it doesn't really matter why a child doesn't fit in it still is hard for a parent to watch a child struggle. She doesn't need your meddling.  [/quote]

+1.  My son is profoundly gifted, and a complete weirdo.  He's a wonderful, brilliant child, but he misses social cues big time because he's so busy thinking and inventing and imagining and learning.  He is amazing to watch, but also quite difficult to deal with.  He does not have an autism spectrum disorder.  He's has at least two IQ tests plus a full neuropsych exam.  He's just really, really smart, and really, really immature, and the combination is exactly what OP describes.

OP, highly gifted kids often have asynchronous development.  Fast intellectual development, slow in other departments (including executive functioning, social interactions, general maturity).  TRUST ME that this child's parents are not blind to their child's behaviors.  We've been acutely aware of our son's differences since he was very young.  We do not inform our neighbors that our son has been through extensive testing and "suffers from" extreme upper end of the bell curve giftedness.  Maybe your neighbors are the same.[/quote]

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