‘I don’t think of it at all as a gift’: Why it’s complicated being a gifted child

Far from the smartypants cliches, some gifted children hide or stop learning.

• Angus Holland
• The Sydney Morning Herald

What is giftedness?

And what’s life like for kids with stratospheric IQs?

Isabella, a slip of a thing with bright, curious eyes, is in many ways like any other 11-year-old.

She lives with her mum and dad and big sister in a suburban house filled with games and puzzles, plays sport, goes to the movies with her friends and loves her dog, an adorable barky spaniel-something-cross resembling a mop that’s lost its pole.

In conversation, though, it quickly becomes apparent that Isabella – not her real name, for…

• ‘I don’t think of…