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Author: Janine 
Date:   22-07-10 20:59

Does anyone have a gifted child who has experienced auditory/visual hallucinations?

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 Re: hallucinations
Author: Anon 
Date:   23-07-10 10:47

We reckon as a two year old our son did. He used to babble on about machines and things, his eyes were open and unfocussed and flickered and he would be reaching out for things he was talking about. You could not get through to him while he was like this. We thought is might be epilepsy. Tried to get it on camera with no success to show ped. They dismissed it. A year or two down the track it stopped happening.

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 Re: hallucinations
Author: evett 
Date:   30-09-11 08:46

I was a gifted child who had some pretty frightening auditory and visual hallucinations from age 9-16. It was one or the other but not both visual and auditory. My parents thought the events were spiritual and took me for exorcisms. Yeah... NOT! I only wish now they would have realized the terror was in my mind and not the "devil". Their belief made the experiences so much worse than they had to be. I grew up and only recently learned they were "night terrors" and could be considered part of my being gifted.

My son has them now. I explain to him that there is nothing to fear and they will evenually pass.

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