I've come across some thought-provoking material since I started looking into this realm of gifted ability. One thing in particular was the gifted adults who only found out they were gifted as adults.
It seems that in some cases, if the giftedness is not identified and nurtured in childhood, it can have such an adverse effect on the gifted person (especially gifted women it would seem) that they actually believe that they are not as smart as the average person, let alone gifted - I believe it's called "the impostor syndrome".
Does anyone have any experiences with this kind of situation?
