Bedtime reading

[kyrasantae]

It's a little cold in here (and outside) as a result (partly due to acclimatization from being so warm in here all the time), but I'm happy about the rain...even though it's cold.

I have been inspired to read a little bit into the psychology of gifted children. I wonder how much the label of "gifted" may or may not have affected the development of my self-concept. For example, my philosophical and spiritual slant. I developed it a little bit later after the more obvious gifts like reading, writing, and music. Which came first: the disposition which is characteristic of the label or the label which spurned the development of that disposition?

Since I was tested early in my school career, and given that I was high-but-not-crazy-high-IQ, as well as the fact that one's IQ declines a bit entering adulthood, I want to ask whether I can legitimately still own giftedness as part of me, and if so, what fruit have I borne from it in recent memory?

It's not that I'm ashamed of being gifted. I just want to know what it really means.^*

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^* Especially in terms of interpreting my habits and personality traits.

Comments

[nt-confidential.livejournal.com]

Funny, that - I've always been self-aware about giftedness since childhood (as you know), but I've always found it to be an engine for rational dispositions. There's probably nothing causal either way. I'm very firmly of the stance that intelligence is a matter of pattern recognition, but that doesn't exclude holistic ways of seeing things; indeed, pattern recognition [i]is[/i] a holistic way of seeing things.