Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Why Gifted Kids Are Actually Special Needs" video.

You start off great and then drift off: THE problem with gifted kids is that they are destined to square off against their TRUE peers. They have no hope of meeting such souls until very well along in their education -- typically prep school or college. Then the 'non-habit' of study bites down hard. Feynman noted this sixty-years ago with his freshman class at Caltech. As for myself, Wonderlic rated me +8SD. ( I was declared non-human. ) So some would rate me as gifted. At the age of 6 1/2 I shot through the S-B IQ test -- perfect until I ran out of time. If I had known it was a timed test, I would've completed it. As it was, I almost did. The national HQ just HAD to phone my 1st grade teacher. This was my doom. (The Litte-Man-Tate track was strongly recommended by her.) But, my parents were adamant against any accelerated education for me. (I was mystified as to why class instruction was always so slow.) This conflict lasted through high school, by which time I had the thickest academic record in North America. My teachers were venting their frustrations -- and amazements. Only at the end, too late, did my high school counselor inform me that my 'cume' was off the charts -- truly incredible. It took two-days just to read. Until then, at no point did anyone ever tell me that I was a smart kid. My boxed set followed me to college -- and caused an uproar there, too. My situation is typical for about HALF of all geniuses. Yeah, it's that common. After my Wonderlic score I was told that no institution would suffer me. This proved true. This society-wide rejection is a chronic burden for the gifted. None of the above has stopped me from changing the trajectory of science, finance and politics locally, nationally and internationally. I just go entirely unrecognized. So, yes, very bright kids are special needs children. There's no doubt about that.
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@sophiefilo16 On target!
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It's not really that. It's because ordinary people don't have a clue as to how to properly respond to high mental acuity. Such bright kids need adults who know the ropes... what's up with the early life dynamics of SD 2+ intellects. Yes, they really are special. "The System" is just not geared towards the top 1% of humanity. One either sees a child of IQ 135 treated like IQ 165 or vice versa. Yet, the learning tempo between the two is rather drastic. Kids with astounding acuity often commit mid-life suicide. They just never fit in, never had a quasi-normal social life. From Tesla to Newton to DaVinci -- note the lack of 'dating success.' This is but a sub-set of their social exclusion.
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@chriswhinery925 The ideology of focusing on low performers was already strong by the 1960's. The NCLB legislation merely codified what the teacher's union was obsessed about. From a teacher's perspective, the toughest part of their profession was explaining to parents Johnny's 'F's and why he should be held back a school year. The fact that the bright kids were bored stiff and cruising to no-where was not any priority for the teacher's or their union. Such kids make any teacher feel pretty irrelevant. They're flying ahead of the class tempo, as it is. I bring up their union because it's a major, major lobbying force in every capital, every election -- especially local ones.
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@bigzigtv706 If you intend to pretend to be me, don't tell the Internet, just do it. It won't be the first time it's happened, not by a long shot.
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@bigzigtv706 That's logically too late, troll. You must have something personal to get off -- so just spill it. Yeah, post about yourself, and stay on-topic, the topic of the original post.
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@bigzigtv706 You are a troll who does not contribute to any thread. Talk to a therapist. You wildly over-rate your self-opinion, plainly. Who cares? Get a life. BTW, I didn't make the declaration, Wonderlic did. My post was exclusively of opinions experts/ instructors held. This thread is no place for my auto bio. My post was on point WRT the Original Post. None of yours are. You have issues... plainly. Face them.
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