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Why Academic Acceleration Can Stunt Social Development

I skipped two grades and graduated college at nineteen but I have never learned how to make friends or date and I feel like an alien pretending to be human.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intellectual advancement has outpaced emotional and social maturation, creating developmental asynchrony.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Gifted education and its discontents?”

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