Neurologically Asynchronous

In the old days people just thought some kids were smart, they were good at some stuffs, and some of them became quite successful and made a lot of money. Today if junior uttered three words at five months old, he's linguistically gifted, he needs to be tested, he needs to go to special school for his talent. Actually no school is good enough -- or no school is tolerant enough. At a tender age of six, junior might be reading at fifth grade level (there is test result to prove it!), and mom insists the school should keep him challenged and put junior in the fourth grade classroom. School compromises and puts him with second graders. Junior, whose emotional and social age is less than a toddler, throws half a dozen temper tantrums on the first day. Why not? Mom always bought him a new book when he got upset, and never talked him about how to behave in a classroom. Later Mom complains to the teacher that they should have given him more challenge. Oh no, junior is not spoiled rotten, he's simply gifted, he's not understood by the society, he needs to be left alone and grow at his own pace. Mom feeds junior more what he likes, educates him on her own, and puts off math and science -- he'll get it when he's ready. A very very smart Mary Jane, learned her shapes and numbers before she could talk, wins all the memory games and word games against her parents. She's fatally allergic to everything cow, soy, nuts, eggs, has asthma, threw up day and night as a baby because of reflux, has sensory integration issues so bad that back to school shopping is all about which tag is easiest to remove. Mary Jane's immune system crashed when she was a baby, and at three years old she was busy growing brains than body, because she was so gifted and talented. Her parents were constantly in awe of what she could accomplish, and did everything to accommodate her special needs. What they missed was giving her a break so her body could regulate itself. Children did not ask to be born into this world, their parents made the decision "to have a family", more precisely their mothers did. We are responsible for bring up intelligent, kind persons. We are in charge, not the society, not the educators, not themselves.