Comments on: Going forward with more evaluations http://www.mycasserole.net/2008/06/03/going-forward-with-more-evaluations/ Mishmash reflections on love, marriage, relationships and parenting by a mummy who is a Takuya Kimura zealot. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:20:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Hsin http://www.mycasserole.net/2008/06/03/going-forward-with-more-evaluations/#comment-520479 Hsin Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:30:19 +0000 http://www.mycasserole.net/2008/06/03/going-forward-with-more-evaluations/#comment-520479 It's interesting to hear about high functioning kids having problems later in life. I hadn't thought of it that way and figured such children would just always be on the periphery of the "typical" kid. It is true many very smart children and people have social issues. So what are high functioning children to do? Are they left in the regular school system? I'm just wondering how being aware of the condition early but still have to put the child thru normal school will help avoid social problems later. <font color="#2554c7"><strong>Hsin</strong>: <em>Interesting point you raised cos I did ask the psychologist and her answer was quite funny. Apparently, many of these bright high functioning ones end up in the gifted programme and their little quirks are accepted cos most pple associate being smart with being odd in some ways. Those kids I've come across were like that! I supposed the real problem comes about when they grow older. By then, they're usually viewed as eccentric! Actually come to think about it, I have a few classmates in my primary and secondary school who fit this profile! And not forgetting those really odd balls in the corporate place... So this is why the psychologist recommend diagnosing earlier. We can help them integrate better if we can identify that they're in this category. So hopefully, they won't have to create the social problems later. </em></font> It’s interesting to hear about high functioning kids having problems later in life. I hadn’t thought of it that way and figured such children would just always be on the periphery of the “typical” kid. It is true many very smart children and people have social issues. So what are high functioning children to do? Are they left in the regular school system? I’m just wondering how being aware of the condition early but still have to put the child thru normal school will help avoid social problems later.

Hsin: Interesting point you raised cos I did ask the psychologist and her answer was quite funny. Apparently, many of these bright high functioning ones end up in the gifted programme and their little quirks are accepted cos most pple associate being smart with being odd in some ways. Those kids I’ve come across were like that! I supposed the real problem comes about when they grow older. By then, they’re usually viewed as eccentric! Actually come to think about it, I have a few classmates in my primary and secondary school who fit this profile! And not forgetting those really odd balls in the corporate place…

So this is why the psychologist recommend diagnosing earlier. We can help them integrate better if we can identify that they’re in this category. So hopefully, they won’t have to create the social problems later.

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