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The 5 Levels of Gifted Children Grown Up: What They Tell Us

Deborah Ruf, PhD
6 min readSep 27, 2023

A radical under-count of highly to profoundly gifted people is going on. I want to put an end to a waste of talent and ability that not only hurts individuals but limits all of us. I’m a High Intelligence Specialist. Literally.

Some people write for fame and profit; I write to share my own hard won wisdom and give people access to their real selves and their intellectual ability levels and talents. Mostly I write so that bright, smart, and extremely intelligent people can discover more about themselves, their parents, and their children, too. And maybe, people who read what I write can see where some things in their lives have simply gone wrong or haven’t panned out for some reason. And I’m not against fame and profit, it’s just not my primary motivation.

So, I wrote a new book and crammed as much as I could into it. I will share it slowly but surely whether you buy the whole book, or read the whole book, or just read bits here.

Why such a big, long book?

The book pictured here is a longitudinal study. I hadn’t planned to do a longitudinal study or write about the gifted children from my 2005 book after they grew up. However, I often received updates from parents of former subjects, and I became curious about how the children were doing now as adults. It wasn’t…

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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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