I agree with Kriston about personality playing a role in perfectionism. My friend has a ND daughter in 3rd grade who is having a really rough time at school because she's so hard on herself when she gets anything wrong - and of course she will since she's appropriately challenged! She's also hard on herself with sports, her appearance, etc.. But the school perfectionism is getting better with warm, understanding teachers. I think one main issue with our perfectionistic GT kids is they sometimes don't get to experience the fact that things turn out okay in the end, mistakes and all... An analogy I'm thinking of is someone with a specific fear, say of dogs. The only real way to get over that is to spend some time with dogs and challenge the fear, KWIM?
