Gifted Child 1: Gifted Children often learn to read early and can master a subject with few repetitions.
Gifted Child 2: Gifted Children are also often very physically and emotionally sensitive, perfectionistic, and frequently question authority.
Gifted Child 3: Gifted Children often perceive their teachers as their peers or even as inferior to themselves.
Gifted Child 4: Some Gifted Children have trouble relating to their age peers because of differences in vocabulary size (especially in the early years), personality, and interests, and so they prefer the company of older children or adults.
Gifted Child 5: Gifted children, especially gifted boys, are also more likely to have autistic tendencies or even Asperger Syndrome (a form of autism with good language skills). This may develop into High-Functioning Autism (HFA) later in life.
Gifted Child 6: Introversion is more common in gifted children.
Gifted Child 7: Gifted girls are more likely to conform and hide their abilities.
Gifted Child 8: It is common for a gifted child to be picked on at school, as they are usually socially retiring.
Gifted Child 9: Many gifted children turn out to be the computer geeks (a compliment) and engineers of society, as well as talented mathematicians, musicians and just about anything else they decide to turn their hand to.
Gifted Child 10: Some gifted children with heightened sensory awareness may seem overly sensitive to sight, sound, smell and touch.
Gifted Child 11: Gifted children often perceive "average" tasks as mundane or mediocre, and are extremely unmotivated to work on them.
Gifted Child 12: Gifted Children are often labeled as procrastinators, lazy, underperforming, and even unintelligent by teachers, who do not appreciate their giftedness and are not able or willing to help such children to make use of their gifts.
Gifted Child 13: Perhaps the most distinguishing feature of a gifted child is that whatever they do, they do to extremes.
Gifted Child 14: Gifted Children are usually alert in infancy. Less need for sleep in infancy
Gifted Child 15: Gifted Children have long attention span
Gifted Child 16: Gifted Children have High activity level
Gifted Child 17: Gifted Children smile or recognize caretakers early
Gifted Child 18: Gifted Children usually exhibit intense reactions to noise, pain, frustration
Gifted Child 19: Gifted Children have advanced progression through the developmental milestones
Gifted Child 20: Gifted Children have extraordinary memory
Gifted Child 21: Gifted Children experience great enjoyment and speed of learning
Gifted Child 22: Gifted Children have early and extensive language development
Gifted Child 23: Gifted Children are fascination with books
Gifted Child 24: Gifted Children are curious
Gifted Child 25: Gifted Children have excellent sense of humor
Gifted Child 26: Gifted Children have vivid imagination (e.g., imaginary companions), sensitivity and compassion.
