[Oz-gifted] Straight out gifted

[Ellen Hrebeniuk]

At 10:27 AM +1100 21/3/06, Marilyn Macarthur-King wrote:
>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??

LOL, my husband and are gifted (we don't know to what extent -- never 
been tested) and our elder son is.  Our 9mo baby is showing signs of 
intelligence too -- his apparently unusual alertness has been 
commented on, but he seems just like our elder boy to us!

Hubby and I have the easily-managed type of giftedness that 
translates to academic achievement, and we have easygoing 
personalities.  I'm not a very girly girl and hubby is not a 
cars-and-Bunnings man, but I don't think we're *peculiar* in any way! 
We don't have any LDs, although I do wonder whether my motor skills 
(or lack of them!) fall within the normal range.

I also know a large number of gifted people who seem normal to me, 
but it might all be rank self-deception on my part!
-- 
Ellen Hrebeniuk
Sydney, Australia

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