Everything in this article applies to non-"gifted" children as well. They also get enormously pressured to get better grades, are overscheduled, forced into music lessons, come from broken homes, have crappy parents, get picked on for any number of reasons, are sensitive, etc., etc.
You could just as easily write a narrative about Joe Average, who didn't have things come easily to him, who struggled, who was never told "you can accomplish anything!", whose parents said, "yeah, we don't expect great things from him", who envied all the gifted kids and their opportunities and their parents who believed in them.
The biggest problem with being gifted is the sense of entitlement that comes with it. That you shouldn't have to suffer like the rest of the plebeians because you are special, or that all your problems are the result of your special curse.
It's just another part of the general case of "mismatch between reality and your unrealistic expectations".
At some point everyone is faced with the challenge of throwing off the yokes of other people's expectations and conditioning and finding their own way.
You could just as easily write a narrative about Joe Average, who didn't have things come easily to him, who struggled, who was never told "you can accomplish anything!", whose parents said, "yeah, we don't expect great things from him", who envied all the gifted kids and their opportunities and their parents who believed in them.
The biggest problem with being gifted is the sense of entitlement that comes with it. That you shouldn't have to suffer like the rest of the plebeians because you are special, or that all your problems are the result of your special curse.
It's just another part of the general case of "mismatch between reality and your unrealistic expectations".
At some point everyone is faced with the challenge of throwing off the yokes of other people's expectations and conditioning and finding their own way.