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What Happens When One Child Gets More Attention Than the Others?

10 min readJun 12, 2025

Reasons Some Families “Tilt” Their Attentions

In case you’re not a regular reader, here are the visual tools for understanding what I’ve already written about.

Here are the tables I’ve developed to show the personality “ways of being.” These are aligned with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® system, MBTI®. My own type preference (ENTP, a weak extrovert but highly sociable and outgoing for short bursts), a person who absorbs rather than memorizes.

Here is input from the longitudinal study subjects who experienced this issue.

Harry Vassar

The three children in Harry’s family are each gifted to different degrees. Harry, a highly to exceptionally gifted person in Level Three, and USFJ…

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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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