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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, thanks for all the mostly positive feedback.  I'm not feeling terribly anxious about my son, but it is weird to read all these parents discuss what their kids are doing. FWIW, most of my family have pds (myself included), ivyleague educations and were brought up to be super academically achieving (3 professors in 2 generations, etc). I myself was pushed fairly hard as a child, but also was internally driven. I haven't really wanted that for my son, but sort of expected he would be "smart" in a natural, obvious way and take to learning in the way that we did (or supposedly we did). My mom comments frequently how he isn't doing X or Y yet, and that I or my sibling did that when we were that age, so she's gotten under my skin a little. On the other hand, she is kind of crazy and my brother, at least, was abnormal, doing long division and multiplication at 5 and graduating high school at 15. He's a scientist now, but also terribly socially awkward and emotionally repressed.[/quote]

OP: That describes our family. Let him be himself and he will develop at his own pace. Many members of our family have also taken their smarts and had a great time in life.[/quote]

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