What is gifted trauma?

"Gifted trauma" is the trauma that gifted people can experience if they feel ridiculed, ignored, rejected, misunderstood, out-of-place, left out or left behind, pressured to conform, or excessively groomed or exploited as a result of their unusual minds.

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What are the signs of a highly gifted person?

Signs of Giftedness
  • perceptive, inquiring minds.
  • unusual insight and intellectual curiosity.
  • superior judgment and reasoning ability.
  • abstract and critical thinking.
  • originality.
  • ability to see connections between ideas.
  • long concentration spans in areas of interest.
  • advanced reading ability.

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What do gifted people struggle with?

When the conditions listed above do not exist, gifted adults will also suffer greatly. They will most likely experience high levels of stress, anxiety, agitation, depression and depletion. Major bouts of depression and suicidal thoughts and feelings are also not uncommon.

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What are signs of a gifted child?

Common Characteristics of Gifted Children:
  • Ability to comprehend material several grade levels above their age peers.
  • Surprising emotional depth and sensitivity at a young age.
  • Strong sense of curiosity.
  • Enthusiastic about unique interests and topics.
  • Quirky or mature sense of humor.

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What happens to gifted kids when they become adults?

So when gifted children become gifted adults, they fear failure and are less likely to take risks. They may also maintain that sense of perfectionism, and as such, are never happy-- because who can be perfect, much less all the time?

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What are three signs that a child may be gifted?

Signs of Giftedness in Children Include:

an insatiable curiosity, as demonstrated by endless questions and inquiries. ability to comprehend material several grade levels above their age peers. surprising emotional depth and sensitivity at a young age. enthusiastic about unique interests and topics.

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What is the mental age of gifted children?

IQ and other tests for giftedness are optimal around age 5.

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What issues do gifted children face?

Types of Challenges Gifted Students Face
  • Sensitivities and Overexcitabilities.
  • Social Skills.
  • Perfectionism.
  • Self-Concept.

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Do gifted kids have behavioral issues?

Gifted children may be under-stimulated or bored in typical social or education settings, [which] may result in behavior challenges like school refusal, tantrums, distractibility, or general acting out.

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What does gifted kid burnout look like?

Signs of Burnout in Gifted Students:

Student feels a sense of dread each day around going to school, clubs, or other activities. Student experiences more frequent anxiety or panic attacks. Student has change in sleeping and eating habits. Student feels overwhelmed or helpless by small setbacks.

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Are gifted people socially awkward?

Gifted children often struggle socially and emotionally. Social interactions are difficult and they don't always know how to behave or read cues from others.

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Are gifted adults childlike?

Gifted adults retain childlike emotions. Throughout their lives, the gifted are often so successful in the pursuit of their goals that they may have managed to skip some of the earlier developmental phases in which young children are confronted with the limitations reality places on them.

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Why are gifted people so sensitive?

Gifted people are usually also highly sensitive and intense. They are more aware of subtleties; their brain processes information and reflects on it more deeply. At their best, they can be exceptionally perceptive, intuitive, and keenly observant of the subtleties of the environment.

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Are ADHD people gifted?

ADHD AND GIFTEDNESS are sometimes described as having the same or similar characteristics. However, one diagnosis is considered a disability and one, a gift. Neither assumption is ideal in supporting the child identified with either ADHD, giftedness, or both, often referred to as twice exceptional or 2e.

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Are gifted people born or made?

The research shows that while children are born with the potential to be gifted, the environment and nurture plays an important role in developing those innate abilities. In fact, researchers estimate conservatively that environmental influences can add 20-40 points on measured intelligence.

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How rare is being highly gifted?

0.13% of the population is more than three standard deviations below the mean (IQ <55), and 0.13% of the population is more than three standard deviations above the mean (IQ 145-160). Thus, 13 out of 10,000 individuals score above 145 and are considered profoundly gifted.

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Are gifted children difficult to parent?

Giftedness can create problems and conflicts; being a gifted child can also mean difficulty socializing with age peers, thinking styles that don't always mesh well with the demands from the environment, even children who see themselves as little adults, challenging teachers and parents.

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Are gifted kids highly emotional?

Because of their intellectual complexity, a gifted child can imagine a vast range of life scenarios that are unthinkable to the average child. They can and do feel with great intensity the emotions that are attached to each scenario and this can lead to them being overwhelmed by anxiety and fear.

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Are gifted kids emotionally sensitive?

Many gifted children are highly sensitive individuals. 1 They may take things personally and become upset by words and deeds that other children may easily ignore or get over quickly.

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Do gifted children have meltdowns?

Gifted children often set very high standards for themselves and get frustrated when they can't meet them. This can sometimes result in tantrums and other difficult behaviour. It's great for your child to work towards high standards. But your child needs to understand that they can't have high standards for everything.

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What is the most common reason gifted children misbehave?

The problems gifted children sometimes face with socializing often stem from their asynchrony and educational setting. Asynchronous development, or uneven development, is often considered a core trait of giftedness. These students may be college age intellectually but still 12 in terms of their social skills.

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Do gifted kids lack social skills?

Gifted children often struggle with social emotional skills. Social skills can be learned at any age. Parents need to stay in tune with their specific child's needs and help shape a strong framework for social-emotional health.

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Are gifted children more depressed?

Some say that gifted children are more prone to depression and suicide because of their heightened sensitivities, perfectionism, introversion, overachieving behaviors, existential concerns, and feeling like they don't fit in.

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Do gifted kids have anxiety?

Not every child displays intensity in all five, but it is understandable that gifted children who tend to have vivid imaginations, overanalyze, or over-empathize may be more likely to experience anxiety. In particular, OEs that lend themselves to catastrophic thinking may increase a child's risk of anxiety disorder.

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Are gifted children manipulative?

Gifted children can be argumentative and/or manipulative. Even though a child might be able to present a logical or convincing argument, they still need boundaries and discipline around their behaviour else they learn that these undesirable behaviours get them what they want.

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