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The dark side of being the 'gifted kid'
Those who think exceptional students have it made don’t understand that being brilliant can have dark implications, writes Swerve’s Marcello Di Cintio. Reed Ball started playing Monopoly with his family at age three—and beat them. In the early 1980s, he was one of the first kids to have a “portable” computer, a 10-kilogram Amstrad PPC512. Reed brought it to class until one of the school’s bullies knocked it out of his hands and down a stairwell...
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I was in "gifted" classes back when I was in elementary through high school (MANY years ago). It definitely had a negative stigma attached. I never really got physically bullied because of it but I did have to put up with some teasing and verbal abuse, as well as being shunned a bit socially. It's too bad this is what happens.