I'm going to say too much so I'll try to cut it into a couple of posts.
I was raised fanatically religious. �There wasn't really terms related to gifted issues flowing freely, back in the day.
I would say that giftedness is a stronger spirit. �That's all the vocabulary I had to describe what I was seeing. �As a new mom, someone online told me that was a terrible thing to say, and, how offensive to the non-gifted, and, what if my kids aren't as gifted as I think. �They said, �"Logically, if I think giftedness is a reflection of the spiritual, then I would think less of my children if they weren't as gifted as I assume, if I was to equate giftedness with depth of substance." �That's what someone assumed I would feel. �But I always used to say �that there's not a heck of a lot of difference between the highest IQ and the lowest IQ human as compared to the difference between human and God. �That assumption that someone said would logically follow how I'd feel if my kids weren't very gifted, �according to their interpretation of the logical end of my belief in giftedness as a solid level of substance and something close to spiritual. �Their logical ending of my thought had nothing to do with my own internal sequence of what that belief would lead to. �((google Davidson gifted forum + Carol Dweck to find out where my thoughts & feelings end up from that idea.))
Anyway that Giftedness facet that I was calling spiritual ... Here's 2 more descriptions of what other people called it..
1.) My hubby said of our son, as soon as he knows enough to understand the question, he always gets the answer. �2.)The other explanation I clipped from TWTM today because they said it better too-

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