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25 May 2007, 2:09 pm

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Duke University wanted him to take the SAT for math ability this year at age 11, but I haven't set it up. I'm not sure I should. He's 12 now, and middle school is a total nightmare. They think he's a genius, but I think they'll have a hard time exploiting it.


The only real reason to take the SAT at that age is to qualify for some kind of gifted camp, like Johns Hopkins or something. From the way you described your son, I doubt he'd be interested in attending a residential camp anyway- way too many social demands. The "Talent Search" program invites bright seventh graders to take the SAT for that purpose, but my reaction was like, "I'd be getting up early on a Saturday to take a 3 hour exam? Um, how about no?" My advice is, let him be, and outside of school, just let him explore what he is interested in.



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26 May 2007, 3:08 am

I was abnormally developed in speech at about 2 years old. A nurse was quite surprised at my vocabulary when I was at a check-up. I knew all basic colors and shapes and stuff, and articulated well.

I always score highest on pure language-tests, regardless of language (to an extent, of course), and I can't understand my peers as they complain about the difficulties they are having with them. I just don't understand what the problem is, other than on a hypothetical level.


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04 Nov 2014, 12:36 pm

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Same for me. But for some reason, my mother thought it was some kind of superpower, and started showing me to her friends like a circus freak. It was "read this, read that", all the time. Luckily, the more I grew, the less amazing it was.

I think most toddlers speak like babies just because they are taught so. Many adults use "baby language" when talking to children, like saying "look, a woof-woof" instead of "a dog". No wonder their speech is delayed in comparison to hyperlexic children.


My mother was also very proud of my ability to read very early. I remember that when I was in the first grade my teacher praised me and promised to other kids that if they spend more time reading they'd equal to me although I didn't see anything extraordinary in my ability. For me it was simply normal. I lived in a village during 3 years, since I was 3 and it was when I was 6 when we moved to the town where we still live. But before we did it I used to spend practically all the time with the simple, uneducated people, often old and born before the Second World War when an education wasn't compulsory, who didn't speak a good grammatical Polish but used a dialect, the words which were sometimes twisted. Although I was only 6 I was well-read as for a child of my age so I knew how to pronounce those words correctly. It was very useful when we moved to a town because this way nobody mocked me because of me using a funny rustic words and phrases.


I am also from Poland and I liked to read before going to school. I think that we have the same phenomenon, the same form of PDD and ASD which has not "Kanneric" appearance, but not so rarely a gifted-like one which can be named as hyperlogia. I did not like fiction literature so much, I read for example cookbook, manual of blender, encyclopedias in early childhood. It was interesting. I have many, many aspie interests in my life. And Aspies are rather the strongest one :)



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06 Nov 2014, 3:05 am

Sorry, necro posting again.