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Adam Schaefer — An Intellectual Outlier
Exceptionally to Profoundly Gifted — Part 8
Adam Schaefer
If you aren’t sure what some of the topics in this post are about, keep going back to the Introduction from the detailed post on January 28, 2025. Also, more women than men opted out of the follow-up study. In the original 5 Levels of Gifted: School Issues and Educational Options (2009) the numbers for males and females were similar.
Adam saw his mother as authoritative to permissive and his father as authoritative to authoritarian. His mother’s personality type profile is ENFP (Inspirer) and she “had the good side of permissive” in the way she dealt with Adam and his younger brother. Adam’s father’s type preference is INFP (Idealist) and when he behaved as an authoritarian parent, he would get angry and sometimes physical in his reactions. Inconsistent parenting is confusing and often detrimental to the children. In this case, the parents did not appear to be on the same page with each other, either. They separated and divorced when Adam was 12 years old. His parents are not in communication with each other at all since the divorce. Adam’s childhood personality…