It appears that funding follows talent in the domain -- and test scores don't really matter in adulthood -- performance does. What happens to "former gifted children" when they grow up is they show their talents and gifts in a domain.

Creating metaphors and images that may be coded in ways the makers don't even realize, permits the emotion to be changed, to be released through a safe and therapeutic means. The "talking therapy" is often not as effective for people in the arts as is an opportunity to abstractly express themselves in the coded way that the arts allow.