Being Unusually 'Gifted' Can Take A Severe Psychological And Emotional Toll On Children
In her article "Curse of Genius," Maggie Ferguson describes the isolation, psychological and social torment experienced by extremely gifted children.
Tom, born into a working class family outside of London, was fascinated with theoretical astrophysics, particularly with black holes and their space-time-continuum link to white holes. He was 5 years old at the time.
He’s one of the kids and families profiled by writer Maggie Fergusson in her “” article in the Economist’s 1843 Magazine. The piece describes the isolation,
