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The Agony of the Gifted Child

By kpluseiswise | October 10, 2024October 10, 2024 by kpluseiswise

A late identified neurodivergent perspective. Have you seen this Far Side comic by Gary Larson? It’s near-ubiquitous in my memory. Just the other day I thought of it again. But this time I remembered it through the awareness of my neurodivergence. Like many of us, I was placed into the US public school gifted program early but was later considered an underachiever who didn’t want to work. From the start being in the gifted program was…