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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, and my sister is one of these high IQ people. Nobody in my Eastern European school paid it much attention. We were all in the same class, "smartest to stupidest," still are back there. No parents ever paid it any attention. My parents never spoke about her "genius." Nor did any other parents, she was just a kid, like any other kid. No parents ever commented on the kids that struggled, never. I think this is changing there, and has been changing in the last 15 years. So, she went to math competitions and to Vienna for some kids in science thing. This is a very U.S. thing to me. I don't get the fixation, I don't get the gifted class before HS, and even then. We had HS that you compete to get into, everyone knew what is a grammar school and what is a trade high school. It is the worst stupidity in my mind. Kids that learn stand out, no matter what.[/quote]

On the one hand you are saying nothing was different for your gifted sister, but on the other hand she (and not you) was given the opportunity to go "to math competitions and to Vienna for some kids in science thing" and you had competitive entry high schools and trade schools. [/quote]

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