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Large hidden intellectual capacity

Antton Olariaga

The Basque Government will implement this course a new plan aimed at students with high intellectual abilities. The first concern is to identify these children, because, as explained in the press conference, many hide it, especially girls.

Needs. Children with high abilities, to be happy, just need acceptance and love, just like all children. And intellectual stimuli, diverse and diverse. It is also difficult for adults to focus on just one thing, knowing that in the world there are many new challenges ahead. And finally, and it is no small thing, fair treatment; injustices suffer with great pain, because of the very developed instinct of justice.

Group. In the morning they realize that boys and girls with high abilities are different. They're not exceptional. They're different. They start to feel weird. The other kids don't understand them, and they can't understand how it's possible that the other kids don't understand them. This difference becomes a brake on social relations, because children, after all, want to feel part of the group, need it.

Loneliness. Not because they're not able to make friends. It's something deeper. Like the feeling that you don't completely fit the environment. Plus, you like to be in your own company, because you're the best friend, and at the same time the most cruel enemy.

Fear. You expect so much from you, the demand for perfection is so high that the mere possibility of making mistakes completely scares you. Fear that the elders will never know your secret. So what would you expect from you? What pressure would that add? Since then, you've heard a lot of myths about these kids, and you don't want to make them a curiosity. I think it's key to empty the mental capacity of mythology, normalize and not confuse children's pride with vanity.

Frustration. What you have the most value when not only you don't see the ones around you, but you impregnate it with gender stereotypes. And when you feel the inability to fight against the mandate of “humility” that corresponds to your gender, intelligence is also called “clarity” in Basque, because fundamentally it is the ability to see things
more clearly, the ability to see beyond. To put a simile that all the miopes of my species will understand: it's like seeing the world dressed in anti-eyes. It's clearer, it's more defined, it's easier. There's nothing extraordinary and it doesn't do you better.

I'm amazed that some of those who have an average IQ despise those who don't get to that random measure, all of them, and themselves, we didn't get to that many accounts without realizing it. It's not a number that indicates the kind of people we are, but the way we treat others.

I am surprised that a television host is repeated at MENSA (Organisation of People of High Intelligence Ratio). This test to find out if you deserve to be among the “elect” is not as difficult; the truth is that it is fun, as fun as when I spent hours doing that as a child.

I am astonished at the extent to which I have included the social mandate for humility and modesty. The conduct of that kind, which is not ashamed of its ability, bothers me, although I know that such thought disguises everything that precede.Es the first time I pass it on to words and, after making confessions, I do not know if I feel softer and with less weight or totally
overwhelmed by shame. And this also weirds me.

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