More on signs of giftedness...

The link to this list was on the Gifted Homeschoolers Forum. 


Giftedness is generally thought of in terms of having a high IQ (above 130).  But there is so much more involved when you look inside a gifted person.  This list gives a unique view of the inner working of the gifted and brings to light the essence of so much of our hard-to-capture identity

• Sensitivity
• Remembering insults forever
• Doing three things at once
• Doing the outwardly foolish thing, taking up lost causes
• Psychic
• Interest in life and death
• Driven to comprehend, complexity of understanding
• Wanting to know the reasons and origins of things
• Asks, “What is my purpose?”
• Naive
• Recognition of falsity, no “trophy friends”
• Complexifying solutions
• Finding non-conventional solutions, originality
• Not motivated by extrinsic awards, discomfort with praise
• Passionate
• Undeterred by conventional expectations
• Self taught, non-sequential learning
• Need for precision
• Recognition of unfairness, strong sense of justice
• Making intuitive leaps, making logical projections
• Noticing what no one else does
• Manipulation and bargaining
• Make and follow their own plans, less teachable
• Devise practical experiments to see “What if?”
• Saying, “Actually”
• Large vocabulary, love of big words
• Delayed in toilet training, difficulty in separating from mom
• Early sense of responsibility
• Not wanting to grow up and face the world
• Less physical risk-taking
• Zipping through Piagetian stages
• Friends of both genders, later sexual interests
• Abstract thinkers before having the emotional ability to handle it
• Symbolic thinkers
•  Can animate their fears, powerful emotional imagination

Actually, I can certainly relate to lots on this list! The forum discussion is also very interesting!