Are You Getting "Gifted" Wrong?

I saw this post on X implying that giftedness should correlate with material success in life, and had to respond. Myths like this are neither rare, nor benign, so they deserve to be challenged.
As tempting as it is sometimes to knee-jerk reject posts like the one Seamus reacted to because they use woke sounding words like “neurodivergencies,” don’t. There is usually a kernel of truth to woke claims, and when you react by rejecting them out of hand, you inevitably substantiate one of their truly false premises.Take the original image, for example. It’s factually correct about most gifted kids…