Gifted children usually can work quicker, deeper, and broader then there peers and operate as levels of normal kids much older than them. There are gifted youth programs to help cater to these kids but due to budget restrictions are often cut back due to the target audience being only a small portion of the population. Other options include home schooling, grade acceleration, or early college. Grade acceleration is not a good solution normally as the child grasps the concepts quickly and tends to become bored.

These children are characterized as having high reasoning ability, creativity, curiosity, a large vocabulary and an excellent memory. They are also physically and emotionally sensitive, perfectionist and question authority. They often perceive teachers as their peers, or subordinates. They tend to prefer to company of adults as they have trouble relating to peers their own age due to their vocabulary size, personality and interests. Gifted boys many times have Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism with good language skills which may form into High Functioning Autism later in life.

Introversion is common in gifted children. Gifted girls are likely to conform and hide their abilities. Giftedness is frequently not evenly distributed throughout all intellectual spheres: A child may excel in solving logic problems yet be a poor speller; Another may have excellent reading and writing skills but have trouble with math. This is due to uneven skills rather than lack of effort.

Gifted children may often be picked on at school due to their social inadequacies. There is a high correlation between giftedness and social anxiety, although the casualty is unclear. Many turn out to be computer engineers, mathematicians, musicians or whatever they are interested in.

Gifted children with heightened sensory may be overly sensitive to sight, sound, smell and touch- they may get aggravated over a wrinkle in their sock, or enable to concentrate because of a click ticking on their other side of the room. Gifted children are often aggravated by the seams in socks and tags on clothes, part of the heightened sensory awareness. This hypersensitivity to external stimuli can be a proneness to sensory overload which can cause children to avoid chaotic and crowded environments.

Others, however seek out and thrive being in the midst of lots of activity and stimulation. Activities awareness can fluctuate between conditions of hyper stimulation & conditions of withdrawal. Some find these conditions similar to symptoms of hyperactivity, bipolar disorder, conditions in Autistic Spectrum, etc.

Gifted children often perceive "average" tasks as mundane and causes them to be very unmotivated with the task at hand. It is harder to get gifted children to complete easy work than harder work. Gifted children are smart enough to tell when they are given more work than their peers, and some resist into doing more work. In doing such they are labeled as lazy, procrastinators, and sometimes even unintelligent in the eyes of teachers. The exact opposite is true when a teacher is able to unlock the children's talent through a unrelated medium. By helping the student believe in themselves, instead of labeling them as a nuisance can help them gain the confidence they need to apply their talents to areas other than their core interests.

Many perceive giftedness as a quantitative difference, as measured by IQ tests, but a number of people describe it as an entirely different way of perceiving the world- Giftedness is not something you can turn on when needed, it is there 24/7.,"

The differences do not disappear into adulthood. Gifted adults are seldom recognized as special population yet they still have unique psychological, social & emotional issues related to their high intelligence.

The most distinguished feature in a gifted child is if they want to do something, they do so in extremes. This explains the perfectionism, the performance, the focus, the level of achievement when they apply themselves, and even the complete and perpetual perception of what they perceive to be mundane

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