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The Isolation of Unique Perception
One of the most common experiences of gifted children is a unique way of perceiving. They make more abstract connections, they synthesize diverse experiences, and they make sophisticated conclusions at an early age. Not that the gifted child’s unique perceptions are always “true” to the rest of us, but they are powerful. The result is a child growing up with a reality somewhat different than the reality of her peers — and often different from her parents, teachers, and allies.
Because they are different in other ways, gifted children are often isolated anyway. Somehow these multiple tendencies toward isolation reinforce one another to the point where the majority of gifted children feel lonely, left-out, or different.
This combination of unique perception and its concurrent isolation yield an emotional vacuum. After all, for most of us, our emotional selves develop by “bouncing off” of all those around us.
—Joshua Freedman and Anabel Jensen, PhD, Joy and Loss: The Emotional Lives of Gifted Children (via disabledbyculture)
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Fuck yeah, feminists!: Dolphins are 'people' say scientists
Dolphins deserve to be treated as non-human “persons” whose rights to life and liberty should be respected, scientists meeting in Canada have been told.
A small group of experts in philosophy, conservation and dolphin behaviour were canvassing support for a “Declaration of…
Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads.
And there are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and enraged. They read because they live in an often-terrible world. They read because they believe despite the callow protestations of certain adults that books-especially the dark and dangerous ones-will save them.
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Sherman Alexie (via booksandnerds)
This is a partial quotation from his full essay:
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/06/09/why-the-best-kids-books-are-written-in-blood/
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