Your gifted child's intellect is years ahead. Their emotional regulation is years behind. It's called Asynchronous Development. And it explains everything. Why they read at a 6th-grade level but have meltdowns over a lost board game. Why they get perfect grades but feel like they're never enough. Why they're terrified to try anything new because failure feels like proof they're broken. You see the brilliance. You see what they're capable of. And you watch them hold themselves back every single d