Disclaimer: it's late and I don't feel like SciHubbing it so I haven't read past the abstract. My N=1 opinion is that being "highly gifted" may not cause socia

Disclaimer: it's late and I don't feel like SciHubbing it so I haven't read past the abstract. My N=1 opinion is that being "highly gifted" may not cause social and emotional trauma, but it can certainly complicate unrelated trauma. I skipped so many grades when I was a kid that they started holding me back so I wouldn't get too "out of sync" (I did junior high twice.) I got along socially with relatively little bullying. But I still have a lot of school-related trauma, especially concerning emotional regulation. My working theory is that none of my teachers had any idea how to teach a 7-year-old in the midst of kids twice their age, so they treated me like I was twice my age, which was fine intellectually but messed me up emotionally. The emotional impact of this has absolutely nothing to do with my giftedness; it would mess any child up. There are some postrationalists that tweet occasionally about how their educational experience messed them up similarly. Qiaochu/QC Yuan is my favorite. Also, I'm trans and there are more of us with this story than you'd think.