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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in a family with a lot of gifted kids.  Two of us were probably highly gifted and one in the superior range.  The fourth was always a poor student but I bet you anything he was gifted/LD.

We spent so much time reading, solving puzzles, researching, inventing things.  We were very curious about everything and never stopped wanting to learn new things.

We didn't have anything like a GT or TAG program in school when we were growing up.   When you got to 8th grade they finally started tracking kids a bit -- honors classes and so forth.   School got a tiny bit better for us by that point, but it didn't get really OK until late high school/college.

My two kids are nothing like I remember my siblings and I, growing up.   They are smart enough, but I doubt they fit in the "gifted" range.   I am a bit perplexed because they don't seem interested in any of the things my brothers and sister and I were, growing up.

They do qualify for the GT program in school, but it is hard for them.   They aren't great students, just OK ones, and they don't seem to have a lot of intellectual curiosity or persistence.   This troubles me.  I don't know if it was something about the way they were raised, or just their own temperaments.

None of the children of my siblings are highly gifted, either.[/quote]

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