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[quote=Anonymous]NP. OP it is a reasonable question and you have to avoid the nasty answers. Your question is important because not all kids with high IQ do well. My BIL, now almost 60, was identified with a similar IQ as a child. It is, to this day, his entire identity. He still talks about test scores he got in high school. Meanwhile he took several years to graduate college, barely passing in the end, and has been unemployed for years and will probably never work again (lives off elderly parents). He has never been able to keep a job for long; he has been fired from every one. His dysfunction is profound and deep, as is his anger and rage at his outcome in life.

Obviously that’s a horror story, but I think that what went on with him is that the high IQ blocked assessment of other issues. He became his IQ in other words, while serious executive functioning deficits weren’t assessed. I think that with a high IQ kid, ensuring the development of executive function is critical because they can often, as children, get away without it. [/quote]

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