Resilience, Parenting, Siblings, and Gifted Adult Outcomes

Gifted children can turn into insecure, anxious and depressed gifted adults when sibling and other family interactions in childhood make them doubt their value and lovability.

Gifted children can turn into insecure, anxious and depressed gifted adults when sibling and other family interactions in childhood make them doubt their value and lovability. It doesn’t take much emotional abuse (bullying by a family member) for a gifted child to believe something is wrong with them, not the bully.