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[quote=Anonymous]"In therapy a few years back, I mentioned I had been a gifted kid, and my therapist said, "That explains a lot." She had me go home and research the emotional impacts of being gifted. I found whole lists of my personality traits as a kid that I thought were just me but actually had to do with having such a high IQ that enabled me to grasp what was happening in situations without the emotional maturity to handle it."

This sounds so much like my 7 year old it scares me.  He picks up on everything.  We can't say anything within 50 feet of him without questions.  He gives us career and personal advise (unrequested).  He tell us why he thinks the neighbor's marriage is in crisis.

My DH was labeled gifted in school and it was great for him.  I think he found the validation in school and scholastic acheivement that his parents never gave him in general.  His mom did advocate for him when they moved - she'd go and say "Test my kid.  Look at his records.  He was considered gifted in the last school."

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