Is she becoming a spoilt brat or just very intense? Is this normal?

[RainbowsFriend]

DD is almost 18 months.

She is talking lots already and gets VERY insistent that you acknowledge what she has said - eg if she says "tree, green tree!" she will repeat and repeat and repeat it until I say "Yes, that's a lovely green tree" etc. She does this even if I'm talking to someone even if I ask her to wait a minute.

On a similar vein, her little friends of the same age are barely talking. She has been talking since about 10 months, so not massively early, but now has a huge vocabulary (I lost count after 200) and is recognising numbers, colours, and putting words together "I down", "more milk" for example.

She can also count to 3 on her own, and to 6 with help. I'm trying not to be PFB, and don't want to google (as I have anxiety problems and not googling is helpful for this) - but is this normal for her age?

All sounds perfectly normal to me!
DD is 3.8 now and was exactly as you describe.

Was talking well before her first birthday (first words at 8/9 months and full sentences by 18 months).

She was also very keen to be praised about everything she said (which could have been our doing as she was a pfb and probably got praised for everything!)
One of her favourite things was a pack of flash cards from elc which she used to insist on taking round people's houses so she could wow them with her cleverness!

You may well be glad to hear that she is still bright but definitely not in the realms of G &T. The abilities of her and her peers have pretty much evened out now.

On the other hand, DS is showing signs of being able to read/sound out words already at 22 months but he didn't speak until much later than DD and his vocabulary was far more limited.

(Sorry if I've rambled on!)
Enjoy this phase though - I still love looking at my tiny little DD on videos showing off her word skills it's very cute :)

Ps I am also a fellow anxiety sufferer so know where you're coming from!

Thank you :) That's really helpful.

It possibly sounds a bit odd but I really worry, and hope that she won't be G&T as my brother is stupidly genius level intelligent - and has had so many problems as a result of this that I just want her to be bright but normal - not G&T!

It doesn't sound odd at all. You sound very caring and are sensible to be cautious about labelling your DD.
I was G & T and it caused me a lot of stress/problems etc (hello anxiety, fear of failure, not feeling good enough, underachieving . . . !)
I'm fairly well adjusted now (i think!) but wouldn't want any of my DC to go through what I did.
Enjoy your wonderful DD :)

Sounds like she just wants reassurance that she's got her vocab correct.

My eldest spoke in fluent long sentences by 18 months and is academically able but not G&T so a bit more reassurance for you

normal
It is great she is talking, my girls were early talkers and some of their friends hardly had 2 words to rub together, that is just th edifference between kids

At this age they are very insistent you acknowledge what they have said, and I found I always had to repeat it, so 'lovely darling' wasn't enough, I ad to say 'yes green tree'
Actually you can make that into a good way of helping them, you reply with correct sentence, plus more so
they say 'tree green tree'
you say ' yes the leaves on the tree are green aren't they?'

18 months have no sense of personal space of understanding of your needs, which is why if feels intense.
I much prefer early talkers in that they don't get so frustrated as they can express themsleves.
I did find with mine though, that I sometimes forgot how little they were when they talked well, and seeing them with friends who talked less made me realise I sometimes expected to much from them!

She sounds bright and wants lots of stimulation
Nothing wrong with that
Tiring for you but can also be very rewarding
Just acknowledge her when she says something

Thanks everyone, and I hope you are all having a lovely Christmas.

Well these last few days we have had 3 word sentences ("I swing now"), and even more insistence that her vocabulary is correct - but we are at the PIL so the "intensiveness" is being shared out a bit, so a bit more cope-able!

Hi Rainbow, you may find my thread here helpful. Nothing alarming on it...

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/behaviour_development/a1569582-If-you-had-a-really-early-talker-would-you-please-talk-to-me-a-few-qs