Growing Up Gifted Is Not Easy
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Elaine Aron
Elaine Aron graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of
California, Berkeley. She earned her M.A. at York University in Toronto
and her Ph.D. at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, as well
as receiving training at the Jung Institute in San Francisco. Dr. Elaine Aron is author of the books:
The
Highly Sensitive Person
The
Highly Sensitive Person's Workbook
The
Highly Sensitive Person in Love
The
Highly Sensitive Child
By Elaine Aron
Published on 02/7/2012
The
parents of gifted children are often raising those kids well, but I
have had too many sensitive patients who were gifted but too distressed
to ever show their talents because their parents and teachers had no
idea about how to meet the special needs of an HSC [highly sensitive child]. // Women who identify with the Great Mother, or are identified by others with Aphrodite (e.g. Marilyn Monroe), for example, or men who identify with the Hero (JFK, Martin Luther King Jr.)
will sooner or later try to do things or be expected to do things
beyond human capabilities, or be scapegoated for failing, or martyred in
some way.
The
parents of gifted children are often raising those kids well, but I
have had too many sensitive patients who were gifted but too distressed
to ever show their talents because their parents and teachers had no
idea about how to meet the special needs of an HSC [highly sensitive child]. // Women who identify with the Great Mother, or are identified by others with Aphrodite (e.g. Marilyn Monroe), for example, or men who identify with the Hero (JFK, Martin Luther King Jr.)
will sooner or later try to do things or be expected to do things
beyond human capabilities, or be scapegoated for failing, or martyred in
some way.