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<blockquote data-quote="sunshinegirl" data-source="post: 537482" data-attributes="member: 14744"><p>My oldest daughter is gifted. I was actually told by the gifted teacher when we were doing her EP once the screening was over to be aware of emotional issues and said it is very common with gifted children. Gifted children can be very empathetic. I was warned about screening books before she reads them...'Old Yeller' may cause her to be depressed for a week. Gifted kids do have a hightened awareness and as a result have a hightened response level to certain things. My daughter can watch the news and see a catastrophe happening somewhere in the world...she does understand the impact and devistation, but is not old enough to emotionally know what do to with that knoweldege. </p><p></p><p>I have also found in our case and have discussed with her current Gifted teacher that she has a poor "emotional response scale" She has the same emotional reaction to her pencil breaking as she would to our house burning down. This is very common with gifted kids. This website has some pretty good info on that and creating an "emotional response scale" which has helped her. </p><p><a href="http://giftedkids.about.com/od/socialemotionalissues/qt/emotion_coping.htm" target="_blank">http://giftedkids.about.com/od/socialemotionalissues/qt/emotion_coping.htm</a></p><p></p><p>When she was younger she had difficulty making friends (around 4-6 years old) because she wanted to do things on her level, reading, writing, creating her own board games etc and her friends just weren't there yet. Now she is 9 and is making friends easier now, she skipped a grade and that seemed to actually help her socially. She is pretty picky about friends and has little patience with 'stupidity'. It sounds horrible, but she refused to play with the girl across the street when she 4 because the girl couldn't read yet. She has actually gotten better at that in the past year. </p><p></p><p>She does have some pretty intense emotional outbursts, she is in therapy to help with that. Even her therapist said it is pretty common for gifted kids to have very strong emotions....so whoever told you that "smart kids know better than to act this way" or that your "son is not gifted or he wouldn't have behavioral problems" clearly has either been misinformed or does not have much experience. A diagnosis of ADHD, ODD or anything else has nothing to do with intelligence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sunshinegirl, post: 537482, member: 14744"] My oldest daughter is gifted. I was actually told by the gifted teacher when we were doing her EP once the screening was over to be aware of emotional issues and said it is very common with gifted children. Gifted children can be very empathetic. I was warned about screening books before she reads them...'Old Yeller' may cause her to be depressed for a week. Gifted kids do have a hightened awareness and as a result have a hightened response level to certain things. My daughter can watch the news and see a catastrophe happening somewhere in the world...she does understand the impact and devistation, but is not old enough to emotionally know what do to with that knoweldege. I have also found in our case and have discussed with her current Gifted teacher that she has a poor "emotional response scale" She has the same emotional reaction to her pencil breaking as she would to our house burning down. This is very common with gifted kids. This website has some pretty good info on that and creating an "emotional response scale" which has helped her. [URL]http://giftedkids.about.com/od/socialemotionalissues/qt/emotion_coping.htm[/URL] When she was younger she had difficulty making friends (around 4-6 years old) because she wanted to do things on her level, reading, writing, creating her own board games etc and her friends just weren't there yet. Now she is 9 and is making friends easier now, she skipped a grade and that seemed to actually help her socially. She is pretty picky about friends and has little patience with 'stupidity'. It sounds horrible, but she refused to play with the girl across the street when she 4 because the girl couldn't read yet. She has actually gotten better at that in the past year. She does have some pretty intense emotional outbursts, she is in therapy to help with that. Even her therapist said it is pretty common for gifted kids to have very strong emotions....so whoever told you that "smart kids know better than to act this way" or that your "son is not gifted or he wouldn't have behavioral problems" clearly has either been misinformed or does not have much experience. A diagnosis of ADHD, ODD or anything else has nothing to do with intelligence. [/QUOTE]
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