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When Seeking Intellectual Peers Creates Elitist Attitudes

My son tested as profoundly gifted at age five and I have spent ten years trying to find him intellectual peers but now he cannot handle being around anyone less intelligent and I fear I have created a monster.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Pursuit of cognitive matching has fostered intellectual superiority and social isolation.

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