Originally Posted by Val
I do care, because making a claim about being "PG" when it isn't true can lead to all kinds of problems. For example, if people are fabricating giftedness, their posts can't be trusted. Yet we can't know who's making it up, and so parents here may be believing advice based on experiences that never happened. This could tend to harm their children rather than help them.

Also, if a false claim of giftedness is made in real life, it can make teachers cynical when an actual HG+ kid comes along. How many of us have had to convince teachers that our kids really are gifted in the face of a belief that parents make it up? That belief isn't formed in a vacuum.
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(And if anyone here is fabricating giftedness, please stop that.)
It is my understanding that the issue is not so much fabricating giftedness as overstating, exaggerating, embellishing, or otherwise claiming the ultimate heights of level-of-giftedness (LOG): "Profoundly Gifted (PG)".