I used to go to a gifted education class once a week when I was around 13 years old. Probably half the class or more had some form of condition, Autism, ADHD,

I used to go to a gifted education class once a week when I was around 13 years old. Probably half the class or more had some form of condition, Autism, ADHD, depression, etc. Looking back at it now, I don't think it was the case that gifted people are generally "mad". I'm a fairly normal person, and so were a lot of other people in the class. I think that rather, it was that these kids didn't integrate well into conventional education, but this gifted education class was very understanding and accepting of people's "quirks", and had a much more open learning environment where people could grow in their own way. I ended up there because I struggled with the structured nature of normal school. I've met plenty of people over the years who could be considered gifted (in this case, top 5% IQ), most of them are completely normal and probably just dealt with the overly structured nature of normal school.