tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21565739.post1121036697078717494..comments2023-11-24T03:11:03.331-06:00Comments on You Get What You Get: Answers and More Questions and More Answers and More QuestionsWriterGrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311438803372879731noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21565739.post-30924594809798505622007-10-07T20:16:00.000-05:002007-10-07T20:16:00.000-05:00ah if you get a chance to have a look at some of m...ah if you get a chance to have a look at some of my posts you'll see I have a hate on for my geneticist.<BR/>I realise more and more that I should appreciate the early diagnosis but he screwed up pre-natally.moplanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16998309937928231527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21565739.post-14009598042020245132006-12-14T17:49:00.000-06:002006-12-14T17:49:00.000-06:00I don't know if this helps at all...but I was in m...I don't know if this helps at all...but I was in my 20s before I looked my age. 95th percentile on height, 95th percentile on weight, and luckily or unluckily 99th percentile on the intelligence tests, from age 2 through college. People saw me, heard me talk, and assumed I was 6 when I was 4 or 20 when I was 12. Sometimes it was fun, and sometimes it was downright terrifying (when I was in 4th grade and all the size XL girls' clothes were getting too tight in the chest and the hips and the high school boys would whistle at me as I walked home from school and I'd cry to my mother who told me that I must have been wiggling my hips when I walked...)<br /><br />It was pretty lonely for a few years there, because I didn't really fit in with people my own age, and I didn't fit in with people who looked my age (OK, what teenager does?)...but it didn't last forever.<br /><br />If your kid looks older than he acts as a kid...it's not a life sentence (though it doesn't make it any easier to be a kid).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21565739.post-79656726960129109062006-12-14T15:58:00.000-06:002006-12-14T15:58:00.000-06:00I am so glad you wrote that Q&A page. I bet that w...I am so glad you wrote that Q&A page. I bet that will be exactly the kind of frank, helpful info other people will need, which you know because it's info that you couldn't find when you needed it. And, you know, it's funny, what with the self-medication advice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com