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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC was tested using the WPSSI-III at 3y4m and scored in the 60th percentile.

Both DH and I were in the gifted programs in school and did very well.  There is a streak of genius on my side coupled with ADD and mental illness.  FIL was profoundly gifted and went to university at 14.

Giftedness was not even on our radar until DC started speaking like an adult near 18 months, reading and adding at 2.5--shocking everyone.  DC reads chapter books comfortably now at four (for fun, not forced), and can skip count any number (6, 12, 18...72.)  Just figured it out--manipulates numbers better mentally than I do--taught me a few tricks.  No concept is ever too abstract...

Even with a test score that says average I believe pretty close to gifted, possibly 2e, because of genetics and performance.[/quote]
I had a friend like that. The best thing she ever said to me was "...no point in talking about it. No one believes you and they get mad!" Yes, her children are gifted by any measure.[/quote]

I think a four-year-old who does not even enter kindergarten for another 1.5 years but is already reading chapter books and doing math like this is definitely advanced.  That is the definition of advanced.[/quote]

Uh...why are you testing your poor 3 year old?  I can tell you that other kids do what your is doing.  Your is advanced, no question.  But not my definition of gifted...not off the charts.  Not unsurpassed by others.  It isn't that no one believe you if you said these things...it's that no one would want to hear it.[/quote]

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