BACK IN GRAD SCHOOL, I gave a presentation on gifted children. The audience, also mental health graduate students, asked questions like, “Why are gifted kids so weird?” and, “If they’re so smart, why can’t they just figure out how to act ‘normal’?” Granted, the segment of the population that meets the criteria for intellectual giftedness has some differences from the vast population of normal intelligence, but when future psychotherapists already are labeling them “weird” it doesn’t bode well.
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