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When Giftedness Makes Teenagers Vulnerable to Exploitation

My teenager is intellectually gifted but emotionally immature and keeps getting into inappropriate relationships with older people who take advantage of her intelligence but ignore her developmental age.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intellectual precocity masks emotional vulnerability, creating dangerous blind spots.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.