In your book “Serving the Gifted” you say “gifted isn’t real” and someone who might be gifted at age 6 might not be gifted by a 16.
Why then do we need to provide anything different for these kids? Why bother investing any resources into finding them?
Your reference to “late bloomers” assumes that someone considered the possibility that, as a child that person might be gifted and determined he or she was not. Do you know this or assume it?
When a child loses his interest in school in grade 1 they are not going to be motivated to learn in grade 5— their passion taken by a boring, repetitive education system.
Your blaming the student’s failure to become successful on the student and not giving any blame to the system that failed to identify their giftedness early enough to nurture it.
I fear your theory of giftedness is damaging and is going to result in a high number of suicides among the gifted population.