The Gifted Child

I was a gifted child. I know that many people have preconceptions about what this means. Often they expect it means that I was gifted in all areas, math, reading, science, and well, not sports. Gifted children are often arrogant and socially awkward. They like “nerdy” things before nerdy things were popular: Lord of the Rings, Star Trek. They often have obsessive interests and can get caught up in their own world to the exclusion of the real world. Gifted children…