Welcome TommyH,
I am glad that you are here with us, and thank you for your lovely compliment.
Giftedness is what advances our civilization, and it also teaches us about uniqueness and genetic varation. Everyone is different.
I think that this is very interesting idea. Actually I don't think that intellectual giftedness is what advances our civilization - i think love is what does it!
Love of learning, love of family, love of our neighbors, love of acheivement, love of being in history books, love of our destiny.
But I do think that every person is unique, a gift from god if they are intellectually gifted or not. So, I say to you, school is not meeting your needs right now, you are not able to show your gifts and talents. See if you can find a mentor to help you get what you can from the system, or find a new situation. To be honest, I breezed through elementary school and middle school, and it was only in High School that I started to understand that developing my unique gifts was going to be painful! Then in college it got 'really painful.' This doesn't mean I wasn't gifted, or got less gifted, just that I had to learn how to study.
A book I love about this is 'Learning Outside the Lines.' Wow!
Anyway - I think you are very insightful to realize that writing is a way to know what is on your mind, and I hope that you continue to write to help you think. I also think about things from so many perspectives, seemingly all at once, that if I don't talk or write to someone who I care about, I would never know what I believed at all!
Love and More Love,
Grinity
