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Is J gifted (and should I give up)?
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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 534400" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Thanks everyone. Social stories look interesting... but I sense that J actually "knows" a lot of this stuff - he knows about personal space, and that it is not good to invade it, for example, but he keeps doing it nonetheless because... something stronger, some other impulse, is clearly driving it. So would social stories help him control this kind of over-intense behaviour with his peers when it is happening? </p><p>I could now get myself in a new tizzy about whether J is gifted or not, lol. Probably best to leave that label alone!! But certainly reading the list of characteristics, he would have a lot of them. Question will be how he gets on at school when it starts following the academic programme, which is not set up for unusual or creative kids, of course. I do fear that a bit. </p><p>SuZir, each individual is so unique, aren't they? My boy doesn't really sound like your son, but they both have social challenges... J wins a lot of adults over, even though they find him a complete handful, and he seems to exert some charismatic force over certain children who apparently (I am told) look up to and admire him. But I see how with equally strong characters, things often do NOT go well. He can be quarrelsome, competitive, has to be **** of the walk - in a nutshell, he is quite egotistical in his relations unless he does not feel threatened. I witness him being far more socially skilled with girls, for example - will ask about them, show interest in them, behave much more "normally" than he does with boys, where he seems to become rather manic and over the top so often. This, linked with the hyperactivity, makes him not particularly socially welcome... but in himself, in his base character as it were, he is quite sweet, affectionate and generous. He loves to help people! Will always be the one who runs first if someone falls or if someone needs something fetching. So I honestly couldn't write him off as being "unlikeable" but he DEFINITELY has social problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 534400, member: 11227"] Thanks everyone. Social stories look interesting... but I sense that J actually "knows" a lot of this stuff - he knows about personal space, and that it is not good to invade it, for example, but he keeps doing it nonetheless because... something stronger, some other impulse, is clearly driving it. So would social stories help him control this kind of over-intense behaviour with his peers when it is happening? I could now get myself in a new tizzy about whether J is gifted or not, lol. Probably best to leave that label alone!! But certainly reading the list of characteristics, he would have a lot of them. Question will be how he gets on at school when it starts following the academic programme, which is not set up for unusual or creative kids, of course. I do fear that a bit. SuZir, each individual is so unique, aren't they? My boy doesn't really sound like your son, but they both have social challenges... J wins a lot of adults over, even though they find him a complete handful, and he seems to exert some charismatic force over certain children who apparently (I am told) look up to and admire him. But I see how with equally strong characters, things often do NOT go well. He can be quarrelsome, competitive, has to be **** of the walk - in a nutshell, he is quite egotistical in his relations unless he does not feel threatened. I witness him being far more socially skilled with girls, for example - will ask about them, show interest in them, behave much more "normally" than he does with boys, where he seems to become rather manic and over the top so often. This, linked with the hyperactivity, makes him not particularly socially welcome... but in himself, in his base character as it were, he is quite sweet, affectionate and generous. He loves to help people! Will always be the one who runs first if someone falls or if someone needs something fetching. So I honestly couldn't write him off as being "unlikeable" but he DEFINITELY has social problems. [/QUOTE]
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