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I'm curious if they were children or adults. My sense is that with support and with drive to succeed, this is something that cna be worked through

Actually, [name redacted] originally sent this to me to help with my own rejection sensitivity:) So I just took the points for parenting myself, so to speak.

I don’t disagree that education has a pretty terrible history of embracing ideas before the evidence was there. Whole language is a good example. But I’m not sure how that bears on this particular article. If something [name redacted] wrote is unsupported, point to it and we can discuss it. “Education research has been wrong before” isn’t really evidence that this piece is wrong.

There is a long works cited at end of the post

The author does specify that it is not a diagnosis in the article. I chose to publish the piece because I was discussing my own sensitivity around rejection to this friend and colleague and she shared this piece with me. I found it very helpful and thought some of the parents I work with would benefit from the tips. Personally, I think it’s useful to understand possible causes to my reactions beyond just being over-sensitive, and how to address them in myself and kids- as well as to understand more deeply how differently wired kids process information differently.

So, this is hand-written by my colleague. I’m curious about what gave you a vibe “vibe”?

I also don’t love the term gifted - kind of makes me a bit sick to my stomach - I hope the language changes - but over time I’ve found it to be a highly useful framework to identify a certain category of children whose nervous system is on high alert and brain is processing information much faster than they can articulate, often bored, depressed and even underperforming in traditional school environments. The Davidson Institute has a lot of content about these kinds of children, the different ways it manifests and how to support them. Gifted is not always the blessing it implies and we’d do well to learn more about it. Like you, I’d love some new language around it though.