born abnormally - I have a hard time with this in the quote. We are all different and that good.
((Hugs)) OTGmom!
Keep in mind that Buck isn't writing about gifted kids, she is writing about herself, and I think she uses words like 'abnormal' and 'inhumanely' to put across the intensity of her feelings. I don't think she is saying that gifted kids are abnormal.
I've read her books, and she
is very very sensitive. Don't you get get more of a gut feeling of "WoW" when she says 'abnormally and inhumanely' instead instead of 'very very?' I do. I dated a writer once, and found that you have to take what they say with a grain of salt, because, after all, they use language to create an emotional effect for a living.
Lots of gifted kids don't have this 'burning to learn' - some start with it and it gets sort of stomped out. I don't have it very often, and apparently my creative outlet is posting here. The whole time I was posting, I was reminding myself that I have to work the next day, and should really go to sleep, but instead 'it' was pouring out of me.
Have a wonderful day,
Grinity
