By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:42:09 +0000

Oh my, yes, definitely! Exceptionality and abnormality aren’t the same thing, though for anyone who assumes all people develop at the same rate to the same degree inside (as in “educational lockstep,” for example), they might as well be. Standardized personality assessments aren’t valid for IQs over 130, but few who should know this will actually stop and think about why that is. It makes things easier for them to assume the norm is the standard (even though “everybody else is doing it” never worked with my parents, your parents or theirs) and everything else is pathological somehow. Why learn about those “elitist” gifted children (or adults) who just have “too much” anyway, right? (Many therapist, social work, etc. training programs now want a “social justice disposition” in their candidates, not to make things even more scary.)

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By: Matthew