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When Gifted Children Carry Too Much Existential Weight

My gifted eleven-year-old obsesses over global warming and social injustice to the point where she cannot sleep and I do not know how to help her carry the weight of understanding so much so young.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Advanced cognitive awareness of complex problems exceeds emotional capacity to process them.

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