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Lorel,

Thanks for your post. I wasn't trying to "woe is me" at all, rather to come clean a bit about the actual social challenges some of these kids face. My best advocacy line for why Gifted Ed is necessary (here in NM it's under Special Ed) is that one isn't worried about whether or not the child will go to Harvard but rather about whether or not they will become the Unabomber. Somewhere in this thread there was a reference to the same thing. The asynchronous development issue can really blow up during adolescence. I know many (relatively) people -- especially girls who have a similar developmental history. As a Mom, I really do hope guidance makes a difference! My family was under tremendous emotional stress but apart from that they were highly conscious of education, very cosmo, very smart, had tremendous access and enough money.

aline