To think DD may be gifted?

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DD has always been developmentally fast but tonight she has shocked me.

DD is 12 months old and has sat on the floor and emptied a tin of 25 sharpies. She then proceeds to put all the sharpies back in the tin but deliberately putting them colour lid up. She's turning the pens in her hand the right way up and when she puts one upside down, she pulls it out and puts it the right way up.

I'm

I did some stuff crazily early. My parents thought I was gifted. I really wasn't.

Aw, bless you, OP. I get like this about my DD, who's 14 months and who I think is a fucking genius. (We have adopted her and she had a shit start to life so we had few expectations and every day she just blows us away by how amazing she is).

I go around saying 'isn't she CLEVER', which I think I get away with because I didn't 'make' her.

Maybe posting on AIBU wasn't the wisest ever idea, though...

Best reverse I've read all month

I'm sure she's lovely OP.
All children are gifted in someway. Sadly we only tend to realise it with academic success. If every body looked for giftings in children we'd find them :)
She might be different to other babies in a certain area, but they might be better than her in something else.

Hard to say so young really. The pencil grip and puzzle matching sounds quite advanced to me although hard to recall what mine were up to then. My DS for sure did not have a proper tripod grip till fourish although he has notably bad fine motor skills. My other DC is getting there slowly at threeish.

These threads are always the same. OP asks if child is gifted then a load of people are desperate to tell her she has the most average child in averageville. The glee and bitterness in the replies is always

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I don't mean to be mean, but I'm laughing as this was me three years ago. Roll on now and I have dd2 and realise it's just kids and they're amazing but rarely unusual and gifted.

My (adjusted 10.5month year old) dd2 can do all of what you say. (They're obsessive with patterns at this age so putting things away the "right way" is bog standard I think). She also has almost twenty words, more signs and can comprehend lots and lots.

Gifted, no

I thought DS2 was gifted when he learned to sight read when he was quite young, and phoned DH who was working away at the time and told him out the tiny genius. DH returned from his trip a few days alter and DS2 was irate about something (he was just turned 3 at the time) so looked DH dead in the eye and whispered "I'm going to kill you when you're asleep and wear you like a blanket". DH was like "kids a genius but also a fucking psychopath".

OP your baby sounds lovely and bright. I love them when they're that age, it's so much fun.

Wets, maybe because most of the posters doesn't have a highly able children? It was definitely a mistake to post on AIBU, OP.

My 8.5 month old also pushes chairs (cushions, his walking lion, anything he can climb up, even folding the oven door down to stand on) to the window or tabletop to get reach things up there.. he must be exceptional!
Op, it's lovely your DD is growing so well. Gifted however... I don't think any of those things show that. Just enjoy watching her learn.

My dd could do the same things at that age. She's now 5 and as much as I love her, she's not a genius.

I'm going to kill you when you're asleep and wear you like a blanket".

I really wasn't expecting that!

That does sound advanced for a 12month old but only time will tell. My DS reached all his milestones early and I thought he was going to be a genius, he's now a very average 4yo . OTOH my brother is actually 'gifted' but showed no sign of this until school age, he was always considering 'behind' in reaching milestones, didn't talk until he was 4 etc.

Keep encouraging her though op! She'll go far if you do. (not sarcastic)

Blimey, some people just like being mean on internet forums don't they!

OP, you mentioned about her concentration being very good to have completed that task. I wonder if maybe that has anything to do with the type of toys she usually has? Just anecdotal, but I've noticed flashy light up push button type toys seem not to encourage children to concentrate on them for long, whereas toys that they have to interact with more (building bricks, stacking toys, shape sorters etc) seem to encourage children to concentrate on the same toy for longer.

Have fun watching your DD learn, she's at a lovely age.

I really hope every parent is in awe of their children even if it is in a less conventional way than the OP is of her child. Its our job as parents to be blown away by how wonderful our kids are.

I love how some of the snarkier posters are also the ones who are keen to let us all know how clever their children are.

I really hope every parent is in awe of their children even if it is in a less conventional way than the OP is of her child. Its our job as parents to be blown away by how wonderful our kids are.

This x 100!

Wow another of these posts. I reckon your DD will probably be putting batteries in things the right way up in a couple of years.

My advice would be that it matters not. Just enjoy her

My ds 2 was like this. Still is at 20.
Ds1 couldnt care less how things were put away!
Its funny how we're all so different.

I walked at 8 months. Alas, that was the peak of my physical/sporting achievements.

I've got no idea whether the OP's DD is gifted. She sounds very sweet though.

I just wanted to warn those whose kids manage to get the battery flaps off the remote controls...

When my DS2 was 2yrs old, he manage to open the TV remote and I'm not sure what he did to the batteries...he might have loosened them/put one in upside down/a bit wonky...whatever.

Anyway, he caused it to short and all we heard was an ear piercing scream (I can still recall it now even though he's 18!)

Basically the battery heated up to what felt like boiling point and he burnt the palm of this hand quite badly

We never guessed something like that could happen, and obviously we kept the remote well away from the kids until they were older.

I do remember when I had DD1 how in awe I was of her development. It's incredible watching them discover their hands, that they can use them, their discovery of the world around them and then that they can walk, climb, jump ... all of it is amazing to watch.

I'm not going to lamp the op (although I have laughed at this thread) because I remember thinking DD1 was incredible for walking at 8.5 months and she really was a very bright child - she is now a very bright adult. Albeit still a teenager and a bloody messy one at that.

DD2 was the average age for walking but once she found her feet point blank refused to get in the buggy. She would walk everywhere. And at 18 months was climbing over stairgates (in a flat so mainly to keep her out of the kitchen) and then learned how to undo them and finally learned how to use the fucking microwave by shoving a book in it and switching it on in the 2 minutes I was in another room folding washing. Yes we had to call the fire brigade and yes the kitchen was badly damaged.

But all our kids are amazing, no matter what age they reach milestones. DD2 has autism and is probably two years behind in her social skills but she is so amazingly bright and an absolute joy to be around.

ps. Op, ffs, get the sharpies into a high cupbaord with a lock on it. One day you will wake up with an entire door coloured in purple otherwise (true story, thank fuck not mine)

Have you signed her up for next season's Child Genius?

3 of mine did this, but really they're just anally retentive. 😂