Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acceleration (2006) [pdf]
I&#x27;m currently 35 and I was ID&#x27;d as a gifted child, so this paper caught my attention. There&#x27;s a section that discusses outcomes based on whether gifted children were allowed to skip grades or not, and my personal experience largely matches what is described for what would be my group, the nonaccelerands:<p>&quot;Several of the nonaccelerands have serious and ongoing problems with social relationships. These young people find it very difficult to sustain friendships because having been, to a large extent, socially isolated at school, they have had much less practice in their formative years in developing and maintaining social relationships. Six have had counseling. Of these, two have been treated for severe depression. If educators were made responsible to ethics committees, as are researchers, such developmentally inappropriate educational misplacement would never be permitted.&quot;<p>I wonder how this group is doing these days. I wonder if the runners of the study ever considered introducing members of this group to the others to form a support group.