Gifted kids are tricky. Teetering on the edge of falling into a low perspective hell pit. They need someone in their lives that can challenge them in a way they can respect. A pessimistic part of me thinks people unconsciously call gifted kids smart just to destroy them. Being told they're smart has a number of bad effects. For one they think their perspective is the best significantly cutting off information they could be processing. Also they become fragile to trying new things because failure results in attacking their identity. Better to make hard working their identity. How would you feel if 80% of the people you encountered took 10x times as long to understand something as you? Would probably be frustrating and feel easier to just ignore them. Especially as a young child with low impulse control and patience. What many are labeling "narcissism" is just low patience and lack of trust. It's critical gifted children are fostered with patience, hard working, and satisfaction from helping pull others up to where they're at. It's critical non gifted people can recognize the gifted and not have their ego challenged and react in narcissistic ways dragging everyone down.