I was never identified as gifted. My father's side of the family is all PG - and in fact I can relate to much of your story Giftodd.
Even if you weren't officially identified as gifted that doesn't mean that you aren't. Even with IQ tests people perform differently on them at different times, so ideally you would have to have had a series of IQ tests on various occasions to have a better idea if you qualify as gifted in terms of IQ.
The bigger part of being gifted, and the part that isn't easily measured, is the internal part - the intensity, the sensitivity, the high level of insight etc. Those things are much harder to measure, but certainly define a gifted individual.
If you look beyond the standard IQ measurement, would you consider yourself gifted? You may be the only one who really knows, depending on how much of your inner world you have shown the outer one. Any thoughts?
