amazing article on PG kids

excerpts:

Profoundly gifted children are endowed with extraordinary, global, integrative mental capacities. This brings into being a multifaceted dynamic which includes but is certainly not limited to extraordinary intellect. Rather, this uncommon capacity manifests as a particular developmental reality that affects all aspects of their being including intellectual, social, emotional, moral, physical and spiritual dimensions.

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he field of integral psychology has identified over two dozen developmental lines central to human experience. These include but are not limited to morals, affects, self-identity, psychosexuality, cognition, ideas of the good, role taking, socio-emotional capacity, creativity, altruism, several lines that could be called spiritual (including care, openness, concern, religious faith, meditative stage) joy, communicative competence, modes of time and space, world-views, logicio-mathematical competence, kinesthetic skills, gender identity and empathy.

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Asynchrony refers to being out of sync internally and/or externally. All things being equal, the brighter the child, the greater the potential there is for asynchrony to be at work. Asynchronous development accounts for the state of the profoundly gifted child who develops cognitively at a much faster rate than s/he does physically. If we broaden the scope of this definition beyond advanced cognitive abilities to include all two dozen lines of development we have an appropriate context to consider the social and emotional development of the PG child.

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The PG child is compelled to reflect, to deliberate, to know, to question, to create, to connect, to penetrate, to challenge and to make manifest complex desires and deepest knowing. S/he may toil tirelessly to master a musical instrument, a mathematical theorem, the nuance of watercolor on clean canvas, the origins of a culture, codes in a complex program. On the communicative front some PG children may debate (endlessly), be moved to stillness by the language of poetry, respond to differences in verbal tone, in cadence, in emphasis, delight in complex language, and thirst for recognition of nonverbal nuances in the most basic of human exchanges. These are all attempts to develop aspects of their complex being, to make manifest his/her unique blueprint.

Here is the link.

I haven't read the whole article yet and I am not saying that I agree with everything in it.