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[quote=Anonymous]My oldest has severe inattentive ADHD and abysmal processing speed, with dyscalculia, dysgraphia, and mild autism. He has a GAI slightly below 130, and a processing speed that's so low it's shocking (at the 4th percentile). So not technically gifted, but the discrepancy between his cognitive skills and his working memory/processing speed is so wide, the psychologist who tested him told us she had never seen anything like it. It's posed a ton of problems because his working memory and processing speed cannot match his critical thinking, at all. In practice, he comes across  as alternatively dumb and brilliant when you live with him.

He graduated from the Walter Johnson APEX program a few years ago (when it was slightly different and more selective), and spent most of his middle and high school years with an IEP, double time, and a calculator and keyboard accommodation. He had double time for his ACT and his AP exams as well. He was able to do a dozen APs, mostly in the Humanities, which was his forte, and is in a Humanities major at a T50 institution, with merit aid.
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