I know that I've definitely had some adjustments. Not just as someone who is the mother of a gifted child, but as a former gifted child myself. I say former because a lot of that identity gets stripped away as you grow up. I think the absolute weirdest adjustment for me was that I was always the "youngest" to do things and figure out information. But, I grew up. At some point, being the youngest, which was completely as much a part of my identity as many other things, was no longer part of who I was. That, I think, was one of the hardest shifts.

But, how do you talk to people about that? Even trying to think of how to open my mouth and say it, I can't fathom that someone wouldn't take it as partially bragging. So, there is a sense of isolation because some of the things I experience as not things that regular people have gone through.