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Gifted Sibling Rivalry and Bullying: Part 3

Deborah Ruf, PhD
11 min readJun 18, 2024

What the now-adult gifted children tell us themselves; their quotes

This post presents additional quotes from some of the now-adult gifted children from The 5 Levels of Gifted Children Grown Up: What They Tell Us (2023) book study results.

The Part 1 post (June 11, 2023) introduced background from the longitudinal study about gifted children grown up as well as other studies related to within family bullying and teasing. The Part 2 post (June 13, 2023), gave examples of quotes from the book’s subjects about the questions surrounding teasing and bullying. Today’s post (June 18, 2024) adds additional family stories, response and information. Because I considered many factors surrounding the views of the subjects and their family members, I’ve used those factors to help readers also see the impact those factors, too, might have. To aid in interpretation, I’ve included a personality table at the end of the narrative sections that you can print out and use as helpful references.

Earl Langer

Earl, an exceptionally to profoundly gifted Level Four, didn’t provide a childhood personality result. His adult type is INFP (Idealist). He said this of his younger sister when in his mid-twenties:

We got along pretty well and were generally supportive of each other. Our…

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Deborah Ruf, PhD
Deborah Ruf, PhD

Written by Deborah Ruf, PhD

High Intelligence Specialist & Writer, Dr. Ruf writes about highly intelligent people from birth to very old age. www.fivelevelsofgifted.com

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