One of the problems with being gifted (yes, you dear) is that we remember every wrong so intensely. Then we set out to correct all these wrongs for our child(ren) and drive everyone around us nuts.
Busted
yeah, I was labelled "GLD," which I guess is "twice exceptional" now. (We called ourselves "gelded," in retrospect that's pretty harsh, but it didn't seem that way at the time, it simply seemed real.) I dropped out of high school every year, etc. and it's been a long, crooked road. I'm maybe a bit too aware that my dad's road was the same, and my kids's road could be too. I love him, 'ya know... I don't *want* him to hurt!
And you are most certainly right. DH is not pathological, though I think he's pretty damaged by some of his experiences. But so am I. I just hope he "breaks" before DS. They're off dancing now, and I've been having a long chat with myself about context. I'm not raising a stranger, I'm raising my kid, and our stories will be part of his the same way his is part of mine.
So, erm. Thanks. Guess I'm having a tough time just now, and maybe the reasons I keep wandering by here aren't so unknown after all. (incidentally, where did you pick up the clairvoyance, anyway? That's a neat trick.)
-Michaela
