When I was homeschooling my kids and on an assortment of email lists, it was fairly common for the childen that were being discussed to have an assortment of labels for their various issues. They typically acquired some of those labels while in public school in order to get an IEP -- Individual Education Plan -- and get written permission to do things in a way that worked for them. While in public school, both of my kids had IEPs and both had some official labels, like dysgraphia, but Twice Exceptional (2e) kids tend to look fairly average. Their strengths mask their weaknesses and their weaknesses mask their strengths and they may make a lot of Bs in school while school staff members miss the fact that the child is under enormous stress and is also losing their marbles from boredom. So the fact that my sons tended to lack official labels for their issues was not due to dereliction of duty on our part as parents. For a lot of years, my oldest was an enigma wrapped in a mystery conce...
Adventures in Parenting and Homeschooling My Twice Exceptional Kids