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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see being smart as ever a problem in sports. Sports requires quick thinking. The main issue with being smart and playing sports is that you could get a concussion that might have a lasting effect on your brain.[/quote]

I'm not sure if you're replying to OP or to other posts here, but the point of this topic is for gifted kids, not smart ones. Those terms are not interchangeable.[/quote]

I think smart and gifted are used interchangeably in our school system to a large extent. All the kids at TJ are smart, and I'm assuming most of them were labelled &quot;gifted&quot; in elementary school if their parents got around to filling in the forms, even though most of the kids aren't Einstein/Mozart-level of genius.  When I filled out the gifted applications for my kids, it was more a test of my writing ability and my ability to &quot;spin&quot; their achievements than anything else, which made me sad for smart/gifted kids whose parents couldn't do this so easily.

Can you define the differences? [/quote]
OP did specify a &gt; 130 FSIQ.  I think &quot;smart&quot; and &quot;gifted&quot; are incorrectly used interchangeably, since every parent is desperate to believe that their smart/above average kids are gifted.   If you needed to test your writing and spin your kids achievements to gain AAP eligibility, then your kids are almost certainly smart, but not gifted.  [/quote]

Actually I think "gifted" is just a word thrown around primarily in the US, where schools are less likely to put higher performing kids into a higher grade, and therefore they have created special gifted programs for those smart kids. In my home country, they put me into the class a year above my age group, because I guess they thought I was "brainy"- our term for gifted.[/quote]

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