Ross Oliver — Profoundly Gifted

Level Five Outlier — Part 1

As with the Level Four subjects, this series of Level Five posts addresses parent and gifted child dynamics.

Ross Oliver

Ross did not take a personality assessment as an adult, and his childhood inventory at age eight showed UUFU. This generally indicates that Ross didn’t know who he was or what he wanted yet. He didn’t communicate further with me and did not accept the offer of the personality test. His mother tests as an ENTP (Visionary), and his father did not submit any MBTI® results for this study. Ross was born when his mother was 19 and his father was in his mid-twenties, and it is unusual in this study group for either of the parents to be so young. His sister came along a year later. Ross’s father was trained in law enforcement and already established in his career.

The family lived in a small (fewer than 3,000) rural town, and his mother finished a degree at a local college and was self-educated in science so she could teach at the school her children attended. Brilliant, confident, and unusually self-motivated, she made sure her children had whatever they needed as far as homeschool, adjustments in…