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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for all the helpful answers, especially 15:48.  To the various trolls, there actually is such a thing as truly gifted, distinct from bright.  You obviously haven't encountered it, because if you had you'd know what the difference looks like.  As someone who went through a woefully inadequate public school gifted and talented program, then went to college at 13, I can say it really matters how truly gifted kids are supported -- or not.  I want my child to be nurtured in all ways, not just intellectually.

To parents of truly gifted children, please pay as much attention to your child's emotional and social development as you do to their intellectual development.  I really wish my parents had.  I think early entrance to college is a really bad idea for kids under 16 or 17.[/quote]

Very good writing there.  I was gifted, in a "gifted and talented" program.  Though the program seemed to include everyone with an IQ of over 120 or so, so lots of just somewhat intelligent kids.  I was reading at barely over 2 and was advanced in math 2 grades.  Mostly it just kind of isolated me.  Plenty of other intelligent kids in my school but even compared to them I was "different" somehow.  As someone said, it's more about a way of looking at the world.  I was often discriminated against socially by other kids, often the other "smart" kids I was in classes with.  If anything, "dumber" kids were more respectful.

Went to college at 17 (not because I skipped grades - just one of the younger ones in my grade).  because I didn't mature socially like others, I had problems in college dealing with social situations.  My social isolation began to affect my academic performance in high school and has to this day to some extent.  Now I'm a recent law school graduate from a mediocre school, unemployed and a virgin.  And I'm not even bad looking in the least - it's my lack of social graces that screws me up.

Growing up, my parents, to their credit, wanted to challenge me academically and did try to help me make friends.  But intellectual development was their priority.  What I really needed was a change to help me with my social development.  In my view, you can catch up academically to some extent in college and beyond.  But once you miss the social rites of passage, it is very hard to catch up, and I'm still trying.  I'm male btw.[/quote]

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