I think that's right. Gifted young ones may think of themselves as on par with adults, but they see obvious differences between what adults can do and their own products. Besides, they may have an easy time early on and then be unable to cope with micro-failures when they start happening, be too eager to please adults and thus dwell too much on imperfections, etc.

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