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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just 'cos your snowflake is a dum dum does not mean I cannot call my kid gifted specially if all objective evidence point to that conclusion. I take your point about normalizing the social interaction etc, however. [/quote]

Pretty sure that your child is fairly average. Those of us who do have children with academic abilities way beyond the norm understand this issue entirely and we avoid labels if at all possible.[/quote]

AMEN![/quote]

Good you raise your kid your way and I will raise mine in the way I seen fit. [/quote]

I'm not sure if you are trolling or not.  If not, please read my story.  My daughter is considered highly gifted.  I posted earlier that she began taking college classes in 7th grade because her school could not give her what she needed - their words, not mine.   She graduated with a 4.7 GPA from high school.  She graduated summa cum laude from college on a full academic scholarship.  National Merit Scholar.  NONE of it was worth the toll it took on her emotionally and physically.  Despite every effort on the part of us, therapists, and teachers, her entire identity is tied to being "smart".  Anything less than perfect sends her into panic.  She is not able to see herself for the funny, beautiful, compassionate, giving person she is.  She sees herself as smart.  As gifted.  NOTHING we did helped.  Nothing.

I promise you that you are wrong.  You have no idea what you are talking about.  And you do not have a child with "academic abilities way beyond the norm" because if you did, we wouldn't be having this conversation.  You would get that being labeled "gifted" sometimes comes with a lot of really bad shit.[/quote]

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