Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recently, Reddit user Somervillage asked, "All the kids who were labelled as 'gifted' when you were younger — did it follow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 4. "It worked out okay for me, but I was always pretty pragmatic about it. Getting B's in hard classes was all I was willing to ...

Chances are that back in school, you either knew someone who was very gifted or you actually were that kid (hey, how are you). However, just because academia was easy for you at the start doesn’t mean ...

"In G/T, I learned quickly that much of my self-esteem came from academic praise and approval from adults," the author writes. Alena Shafieva via Getty Images I don’t remember precisely when I first ...

1."I found anything that required effort immediately turned me off. I never developed a work ethic, so I'm incredibly lazy. But I'm also extremely efficient by putting in as little effort as possible ...

There are many commonalities among kids who were intellectually or academically advanced. In my practice, I get a lot of highly verbal, high-achieving, and/or intellectual clients, which I can ...

New York decides which 4-year-olds should be designated “gifted.” Many experts think that’s too young. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll look at the continuing challenges that ...

Existential anxiety and giftedness seem to go hand in hand, which makes sense if you think of giftedness as, at least in part, a preoccupation with problem-solving. Death and life’s meaning are the ...

When schools or psychologists identify some kids as gifted, they’re implicitly identifying a whole lot more kids as not-gifted. This artificial distinction can do a lot of damage, both for those who ...