Originally Posted by ultramarina
I do think there may be *particular* concerns or problems or social issues that are more common to gifted children, such as concern for justice, perfectionism, overcorrecting others, and underachievement in response to social pressure. It's useful to be aware of these common issues.


Exactly-- any connection to mental health dysfunction is probably linked via mechanism to those common areas of poor fit (with respect to more typical educational or social settings).

But it's not easy to study that sort of thing. smile

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.