Severely Gifted

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I used to think the schools should treat excessive IQ as a disability, but now I figure they'd just mainstream us. (I still think some children should be diagnosed with "Intellectual Curiosity Disorder" so they can get an IEP with lots of reading.) Here's an article about the severely gifted.

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I was talking with a coworker when I learned about some of the curious traits of the gifted. Immediate joke: I'm not moody, I'm just gifted! (Joke being: probably both). My school system worked well enough for me, for most of the time anyway, by letting kids work at their own pace in some subjects. It was a brilliantly simple idea, and quite unusual then (and probably now too, alas).