I like reading your thoughts about the gifted kids thing and I want to say that my experience was super weird. I felt like a failure in sixth grade because I did poorly on a lot of homework and tests, especially reading comprehension and written answers. Undiagnosed ADHD and dyslexia. It got worse as the year went on. And yet the school put me in the gifted club, my mom assured me that it didn't mean I was "stupid", and I proceeded to struggle in gifted club too. It all baffles me to this day.
I canāt actually sit down today for a big dissertation on what I mean when I sayĀ āGiftednessā, but let me just say now: Most of the former Gifted children I know identify as very stupid adults. Being developmentally out of step with your peers is NOT, in fact, a great guarantee of high grades. For some of us, sometimes, it was. In other cases, it went hand-in-hand with being miserable failure. I definitely enjoyed the years with my grades were mixed As and Ds--I either aced a class, or completely bombed it. Undiagnosed ADHD whoohoo!













