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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP it’s really not fair to your child to just pretend she’s just like everyone else to meet someone’s standards of “normal”; ie of average intelligence. It’s a gift. It’s also a drive. Not all highly intelligent children/ people have all these “sensory issues”. 
The world is full of very bright well adjusted happy smart people. 
In preschool is ok but it rapidly becomes not ok. My DC (at Ivy now) said finished everything on Monday and spent the rest of the week in school just waiting. All day every day just waiting for the rest of the class to catch up. Not allowed to say or act “bored” just waiting waiting waiting. 
During an illness wrote and published on an adult level in 7th grade. Enough. Needed to be with others like DC was and we changed schools — much happier. 
You need to accommodate your child. [/quote]

It’s also not fair to pretend she’s not normal when she is.

Op has a very young child who speaks well. That’s not gifted. So everything she’s claiming as being a consequence of being too smart isn’t actually a consequence of that. Poor social skills are just that. Poor social skills. They should be addressed as such.

Oof. Can you imagine a kid who is struggling with social skills and mom just reads books on gifted children and dismisses her child’s deficits as her being too smart? Then the kid grows up with crap social skills and end up being normal academically.

I’ve seen it happen. In that case mom kept making excuses for everything. Kid was never performing to his actual potential. It’s maddening. I kid you not, she still talks about his early verbal skills. He’s 12! I remember he wasn’t reading fluently in 1st grade (like real chapter books which isn’t normal but whatever) and she was sure he was dyslexic because he knew all letters at 18 mo and could sound out easy words by 3. [/quote]

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