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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Abstractly, I agree with you.  Concretely, the dynamics occur the way they do because sometimes there's no doubt (and some of those times the non-doubter is right; others not).

In the context of these boards (where anonymous posting is the norm but where it's also clear that many posters are "regulars"), I think it's fine to call someone on it when you think what s/he says is out of line.  If that poster has a reasonable and credible explanation, s/he offers it, you apologize, and everybody benefits from the added clarity.

Conversely, if you call a poster on misbehavior and s/he escalates rather than explains or desists, that also produces clarity/dispels doubt.  At which point, I think it's time to move on and trust the intelligence of other readers to decide whom to ignore.[/quote]

I agree with this.  I don't think calling somebody out means you necessarily have "an axe to grind."  And I also don't think that it's just the parents of gifted kids who get called out here.  It's "calling somebody out" every time a parent of a gifted kid complains about how s/he's being treated (for example, in the "troll" thread cited above, where some parent of a gifted kid just came on to complain, without any preceding context related to gifted kids).  Or, when a parent of a gifted kid says "if you don't understand, then your kid must not be gifted" (which somebody actually said to me a few months ago, but I have no idea where to begin to dig it out of the archives), it's an obnoxious way of calling somebody out.

Also, I'm another poster who has been using "gifted parents" as shorthand for parents of gifted kids.  Sometimes you get too many prepositions and nouns in a single sentence.  I agree, there's no good word for "non-gifted kids."  The phrase "neuro-typical" seems too clinical, or pedantic, or condescending, or something.

I think I've said all I have to say on this subject by now....  :wink: [/quote]

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