In any case, a major pitfall for some gifted children is a lower level of empathy and an inaccurate perception of their communications with others. One finding was that, almost unanimously, they reported that their social-emotional development was shortchanged. Intellectual capability can not replace emotional capability. No matter how brilliant, humans are still social creatures who absolutely require connections to other people. While it is certainly reasonable to teach them to present their views with tolerance and care, it is also important to preserve their sense of what's right.
Gifted children are usually perfectionists.
On the one hand, perfectionism means they are motivated to work toward mastery and they earn pleasure from achievement. On the other hand, it means they are unforgiving of themselves, they resist learning from failure, and they have great difficulty going backwards. Perfectionism contributes to pessimistic beliefs, feelings, and actions. This is a powerful impulse which prevents learning the valuable lesson of redoing, starting again, reversing, or regrouping. Perfectionism is potent.