[Oz-gifted] Straight out gifted

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Marilyn

I am "just gifted".  I am in the HG range.  My dh is "more" gifted than I 
am, but is a visual spatial learner, so doesn't have a number as such (when 
he did his IQ tests at school he was found to be "average" despite the fact 
he couldn't actually read at that point).

My two kids are combination - my dd is gifted, but with VS characteristics.  
My ds is more like his dad, but without the reading problems.  Both have 
overexcitabilities and sensitivities.

That all being said, I think that maybe nowadays we look at the individual 
characteristics more.  My dh was diagnosed dyslexic at school.  I was just 
called "quiet, studious, fussy with clothes etc".  Looking back I am fairly 
visual in my learning style, but have very bad eyesight, so have compensated 
by developing a more auditory learning style.

I went to an OC school, and kids there were hyperactive, and "allergic to 
food colourings".  Some of them were considered "odd", and probably had ASD 
characteristics, but weren't categorised as such.  I think it is more a case 
that more research has been done and theories formulated (thinking in 
particular visual spatial learning - since the 80's) , than these 
characteristics not being around.

Lynda


>From: Marilyn Macarthur-King <marilmking at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: oz-gifted at rite.ed.qut.edu.au
>To: oz-gifted at rite.ed.qut.edu.au
>Subject: [Oz-gifted] Straight out gifted
>Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:27:51 +1100 (EST)
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>Hi everyone,
>After more than 15 years of wading through gifted
>issues I would really like to know if there are any
>straight out gifted kids/people.
>
>From my observation all the gifted people I know or
>have heard about have *some* degree of
>LDs/ADD/sensitivities/overexcitabilities/ASD/you name
>it/blah blah blah.
>
>Am I just seeing/hearing the squeaky wheels?
>
>Or are we all on the giant continuum and no one is
>devoid of the above, some just have a speck or two and
>others have truckloads that are obvious and then rate
>the various diagnosis?
>
>Does anyone know of a just-gifted individual? Without
>any of the above? And if they do, are these
>just-gifted people really just-gifted or are they more
>clever at hiding their idiosyncrasies or the observers
>less able/not aware enough to notice them? Or their
>'specks' don't clash with schools' or society's
>expectations??
>
>Always eager for answers
>Marilyn
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