One thing that was a revelation to me, as a gifted girl in adult form, was to discover the concept of "impostor syndrome." It was so gratifying to be able to put a label on how I've felt my whole life
Girls don't have the monopoly on this. I spent a lot of my life feeling it too.
"Huh? Is that all there is to this? I thought it was going to be hard. And difficult to follow/understand.."
Was a thought I had a lot as a kid followed by:-
"I must be missing the deep insight that everyone must be feeling"
they weren't LOL