Can a behavioral disorder be an indication of giftedness?
Almost all highly gifted children sooner or later have problems with other children and at school. Their classmates exclude them because of their special nature, as they behave strangely in their eyes. The school material bores them and they start to be occupied with other things and possibly disturb the lessons.
Thus, most highly gifted children show conspicuous behavior, which is often noticed even before they are highly gifted. In these cases, the behavioral problems are actually an indication of a particularly pronounced intelligence. However, since giftedness is rare, it occurs only in very few of the many children with behavioral problems. If the child has already shown signs of a special aptitude before, for example particularly fast learning of speech,
