Originally Posted by
benyl
Wasn’t our idea. Everyone who met him was impressed with his language skills. We thought it was normal and didn’t think anything of it. Someone suggested we get him assessed.
He started talking at about 9 months. Full sentences at 11 months. Wrote his own name at 15 months. My bias was that I just thought other kids were stupid. Haha. Memory recall was nuts. 18 months, he could name 50-60 Thomas the trains. Yes, I bought a lot of trains.
He has an incredible sense of justice and fairness. Followed the rules, but would attack any kid who didn’t. Gravitated to older kids because they could communicate. Kids his own age simply grunted. Full bore convos on super heroes and trains at 2 based on books that were read to him. He still doesn’t watch TV. Last Summer, he read all the Harry Potter books in 4 weeks.
The signs were everywhere, we just didn’t notice. Other people did.
The hard part for us was that we would put him in preschools and he would last a day or two, get bored and cry. He was a serial dropout of so many programs. Tried Montessori, Waldorf, normal preschool, Chinese school, Korean school...
The staff kept him fully engage at the on site assessment at Westmount. He came out beaming. On the first day of K, we were afraid he wouldn’t go in and cry. He walked right in and didn’t look back.
I hate talking about him cause it feels like boasting. But, if I can help one parent who’s having a hard time with their kid, it’s worth looking like I’m boasting.