JSF first speaks of the beginning of the life of the gifted child and the baby becomes large, learns to speak, the school's beginnings, successful schooling and others, adolescence, and finally the life of adult. Because one would have thought that a gifted child becomes a normal adult. Now it is not so, it becomes a different adult other.
The goal is not to blacken the difficult aspects of life, but rather to highlight and especially to understand why these behaviors exist. The author has gathered a large amount of examples through his experience with patients: The gifted will feel we wrote a book about him! Obviously, all the "cases" are unique and we will not identify with all people, but it can be recognized in some! This finally helps to understand behaviors and attitudes, things one has accused us, almost permanent mismatch for years with the knowledge, colleagues, we lost some friends, some family members , etc ...
The voice and eye JSF put into words what we feel and what we saw. And this will play down to seek correspondence other than in psychopathology: Indeed, some gifted with poorly will be to go to the psychiatrist, knowing that their IQ will try to treat anxiolytics, antidepressants and even powerful drugs to treat nickname bipolarity or depression. JSF calls the diagnosis for those who "know" but not 100% sure, not having made the famous IQ test. And enhancement of self-esteem, which was reached in childhood and the journey of life. Congratulations. She also found a new expression, more realistic for high IQ: the surDouillets. Thank you for this book.
