yeah, I guess it's just : from the perspective of someone who's not a parent (and being a parent does change all the perspectives) I've known plenty of kids who might actually have had a diagnosable learning difficulty around a certain skill, but it put them at the level of "gets B in Above Average classes instead of A in Gifted classes, in that one subject". And the result of the diagnosis is they put a huge amount of importance and effort into this thing they're *perfectly competent at*, at the expense of working on things they're interested in and/or already skilled at, or teaching them joy.

If it's causing them distress because it's something *they* want to be able to do better, or it's something that's reasonably likely to cause much bigger difficulties down the road, then it's definitely worth doing whatever you can.

But misspelling 'analysis' as a ten-year-old is neither of those things.

And sometimes it's actually more worthwhile to let the kid be less than gifted at something, and teach them that it's not a disaster or a disease to be bad at some things sometimes.