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How Gifted Education Can Create Fragile Perfectionism

I was homeschooled because I was gifted and now I am twenty-five and cannot handle any kind of criticism or failure because I was never allowed to struggle with anything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Protection from intellectual challenge has prevented the development of resilience and frustration tolerance.

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

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