Raising a profoundly gifted child as a formerly gifted person
I call myself "formerly gifted" semi facetiously. Basically I was identified as a child, placed into an accelerated program and all that. It's been years since I've been tested and I'm not trying to trample on anybody's definition of gifted.
Either way, my son tests well beyond where I ever was. I joke that he's the OP Universal Threat in a comic book, and at best I'm that same character when they're rolled into regular continuity and have to tone them down.
He's on the spectrum. Not trying to self diagnose but I wouldn't be surprised if I was, I just never was tested as back in the 80s they weren't testing people like me (verbal, *some* social else etc).
You'd think it would be easier, but I'm finding it having it's own hurdles. While I understand plenty his POV, I find myself thinking about how I handled similar scenarios. Being similar but not all the way alike. I have to catch myself. I feel like I do a decent job at it, but parenting with or without anybody being gifted is going to make you doubt yourself.
So my question, anybody here gifted with children who are gifted, but not gifted the same way? Anything you do to keep yourself for assuming you know *exactly* what they're dealing with?