How many gifted children are being left out because their parents and community members think that being smart is not cool and that mediocrity should be the goal?
As someone who grew up un-IDed and generally under achieving, thinking about this can make me lose sleep. I have great parents that are GT to some degree too, but they knew nothing about this world and just thought I was really high maintenance and emotional. It is far too easy to slip through the cracks.
Me too! I just thought that it was normal for kids to want the tags cut out of their shirts and complain about their sock seams.
Of course, this begs the question of what it takes to 'make me lose sleep.' Truth be told, things that don't seem to bother other people bother me quite a bit! Am I right?
Grimity
