Another article I found helpful:
http://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Articles_id_10140.aspxWhen the superintendent of our school told me that my son's learning differences were "a good problem to have" I think he was right for many reasons that I am slowly discovering.
One thing I found out recently was that my father's younger brother had asthma and severe headaches that kept him inside and prevented him from doing very much of the outside physical labor that my dad was required to do as a child growing up in a poor family. Their mother knew that the younger brother wouldn't be able to do jobs that required a lot of physical labor so she made financial sacrifices and helped him pay for college and he became an engineer. The other brothers, also very bright, had to work after school so they would have enough to eat and they didn't have as much time to do homework. They struggled while the less physically able brother came out ahead in some ways, so it certainly turned out to be a good problem for my uncle to have.
