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Am I Gifted or Autistic?

The best conversations with my daughter come when I least expect them. Usually I’m chauffeuring her somewhere and she’s reading in the backseat. I find she’s most forthcoming if I don’t press too much,...

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The Quiz Bowl Incident

My daughter joined the district quiz bowl team this spring. She loves it. No, I mean she LOVES it. Fist pumps and happy dances after a correct answer loves it. Her teammates are her peeps. Most of them...

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The Path to Achievement

We realized pretty early that our daughter wasn’t going to be on the usual path to achievement. Typical comments from around age five gave us our first clues: “Mom, I think I should stay inside from...

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