It is appropriate. We're a refinement of the same process, like it or not.
I think that's probably the problem with taking a group of orphans and telling them you're teaching them to become one person, and if they can be the most like him, they win everything. Which is obviously not what was said, exactly, but it's what a lot of us felt.
There were all kind of messy transfers of affection. Like it or not, the system puts you, or rather, the 'L' figure, into the void that losing one's entire family left, given the absence of parental figures, councilors, etc. Not to mention the poor social skills characteristic of the severely gifted child, which add to the sudden isolation.
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Date: 2008-08-08 06:21 pm (UTC)From:I think that's probably the problem with taking a group of orphans and telling them you're teaching them to become one person, and if they can be the most like him, they win everything. Which is obviously not what was said, exactly, but it's what a lot of us felt.
There were all kind of messy transfers of affection. Like it or not, the system puts you, or rather, the 'L' figure, into the void that losing one's entire family left, given the absence of parental figures, councilors, etc. Not to mention the poor social skills characteristic of the severely gifted child, which add to the sudden isolation.