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Great thread!

My story of isolation due to the awareness gap is woven throughout this article on raising/educating the gifted.
http://editor.viewfromwithin.net/wpmu/2008/10/25/life-is-like-a-box-of-chocolatesforrest-gump-1994/

Sorry for the ridiculous url, the article is called 'Life is like a box of Chocolates'. It is written as a look back across 18 years of raising a profoundly gifted child. It begins with the myth of what I once, fleetingly imagined it would be like to be be the parent of a prodigy to point out that this myth actually makes it more difficult to identify gifted children.

My son, now 18 and a software developer is also contributing articles at http://viewfromwithin.net/geek.htm and accepting comments at his blog.

regards
Rosie