What was your gifted child like when they were 2 - 3 years old
(59 Posts) ChazDingle Sat 09-Mar-13 14:59:26  Won't go into too
much detail but DS has been identified as potentially showing
some signs of autism. One of the main things is that he
extremely good with numbers and letters. Its early days still
but it was also mentioned that some of the other signs might be
toddler behavour that he grows out of and he might be gifted.
When i look at the signs of autism and the signs of giftedness
there is quite a big overlap. If your child is gifted what were
they like at 2-3 and were they suspected of being autistic? Did
they turn out to be autistic as well as gifted.  SCOTCHandWRY
Wed 13-Mar-13 20:25:53  3 of my dc have very high iq (obviously
the meaning of that is debatable, but the 3 were each tested as
part of testing for other conditions and at the request of their
schools). At age 2-3, by comparison to most age peers, they had
huge vocabularies (we have video of one talking in full complex
sentences on his