We didn't really have any ONE conversation with DD. We just answered her questions in a pretty matter of fact way.
She's an outlier. Once she was old enough to understand what a normal distribution meant-- she was old enough to have that part of the conversation.
Also discussed why school never really "fit" well, even with acceleration-- because what SHE needs is very very different from what others need.
Talked (using visual representations, sketched out) about the differences in developmental arc-- and different domains, such as cognitive, physical, emotional, social, etc.
She found Dabrowski on her own when she was about 12, and that made all the lights come on for her-- it's her preferred means of understanding what it means to be this gifted in the world that we all share.
I'm guessing that more girls than boys NEED to have this set of conversations-- at least that is what the data suggest about adolescent girls (they tend to underestimate ability, and males tend to overestimate it). I also suspect that different people will find different models of what "g" means to be particularly resonant.
