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[quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain the "quirky" thing?  I have seen SO many references to people wanting to be in the GT Center b/c their kid is, as they describe it, quirky, and they want to be with the other quirky kids.

My DD has been in the Center for 2 yrs and I spend a fair amount of time at school, and I don't find the kids in the Center to be particularly "quirky."  They are all really bright kids, but there aren't any "oddballs" - almost all of them seem quite well-adjusted, they have friends, they function well in the classroom and working in groups, they have sophisticated senses of humor, etc.  It seems to me there are quirky kids in the base school as well.  I also have a DS who will be in the Center next year.  There are a lot of words I could use to describe my kids, but quirky would not come to mind for either of them.  So why is quirkiness considered a GT thing?  Does it just mean that GT kids are not fitting in well with their base school peers because they have different kinds of interests (I could see that being the case in some circumstances)?  I almost feel like quirky is code for something else and I'm not picking up on it![/quote]

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