I currently am a 'gifted child', and it really is all bullshit. I go to a 'prestigious' school where everyone around me is a 'gifted child', and so many of us are perpetually tired and perpetually beginning to burn out: this solely because we could read and write at higher than expected levels for our ages in 3rd grade. I don't mean to be ungrateful. My education is amazing, but it's not inherently meaningful, and
you should be careful. There is no difference between a gifted child and an ungifted child. We get just as tired just as quickly.
> My four year old daughter is exceptionally gifted (generally), and profoundly so with visual-spatial intelligence and math.
And? These are test results. They mean nothing. Sometimes the argument delivered to 'gifted kids' is that they have a gift and thus a responsibility to use it, which is, as previously stated, bullshit. I have no gift aside from existence, the same as every other person. I say this because you can't interpret test results as a reflection of the brain --- or _intelligence_, whatever that is. Tests are limited in scope, innacurate, and probabalistic. They're determined by so many factors that aren't intelligence, and so many subsections of intelligence are excluded or included arbitrarily. Pretending I or your child has more of a nebulous and immeasureable quality is a factually innacurate burden that makes living harder. I won't give parenting advice, but I will give my perspective. I hope it's helpful.
> My four year old daughter is exceptionally gifted (generally), and profoundly so with visual-spatial intelligence and math.
And? These are test results. They mean nothing. Sometimes the argument delivered to 'gifted kids' is that they have a gift and thus a responsibility to use it, which is, as previously stated, bullshit. I have no gift aside from existence, the same as every other person. I say this because you can't interpret test results as a reflection of the brain --- or _intelligence_, whatever that is. Tests are limited in scope, innacurate, and probabalistic. They're determined by so many factors that aren't intelligence, and so many subsections of intelligence are excluded or included arbitrarily. Pretending I or your child has more of a nebulous and immeasureable quality is a factually innacurate burden that makes living harder. I won't give parenting advice, but I will give my perspective. I hope it's helpful.