I have to say that, as much as I really like Jim Delisle, I don't like this list. I've seen it before and my dd11, in particular, was extremely turned off by it. She saw it as a list for braggarts who think that they're better than everyone else.

Her experience of being gifted is more about thinking differently than others than having people tease her for being too smart or finding school too easy. In some ways, she finds it harder than less intelligent kids b/c it is taught in a way that is so different from how she learns. She works hard to see things the way that others do and is frustrated by the way things are presented.

I think that this has led to her rejecting the label gifted all together b/c she sees it the way this list describes it -- as being all about kids who find school easy and who are perfect students.