You actually are dismissing the article itself, and the experiences of all the HNers that have experienced what it talks about firsthand.<p>Your phrase &quot;self-proclaimed gifted&quot; is outright dismissive.<p>This is a natural human reaction. The reminder of the existence of people smarter than ourselves often results in narcissistic injury, it feels bad, it can hurt.<p>It&#x27;s the reason gifted education is such a low and unpopular funding priority.<p>But all that does is make society poorer.<p>Humanity&#x27;s gifted population is one of it&#x27;s great resources, and we squander it. We don&#x27;t protect it, and we don&#x27;t value it, and we don&#x27;t foster it.<p>The article talks about twice exceptional kids, these are kids who are gifted but often have a discrepancy or a weakness, a learning disability.<p>Because they are highly verbal and intelligent, they can use that to cover for their weaknesses, but they do not do well in a school setting at all.<p>They withdraw or they become the class clown to entertain themselves.<p>This often compounds over the years, like untreated ADD, and turns into depression, anxiety, substance abuse and so on.<p>And it&#x27;s a tragedy because they have so much to offer, but we fail them, and we lose a lot of them.