High Cognitive Minds

I once read a description of gifted people as tending to be dissatisfied and oppositional. I don't remember whether the author saw that as good or bad, but I suspect he came down on the negative side. I think any kind of creativity comes out of dissatisfaction, either with the way things are, or the sense of something missing. And I suppose being dissatisfied automatically makes you oppositional.

I don't know whether it's the same thing when a child is labeled with the term "oppositional disorder." There are plenty of children who are angry and out of control for one reason or other, but I wonder how many are stuck with a psychiatric label when there are good and sufficient reasons for their attitude and behavior. Maybe some of them are already rebelling against the confines of the straight line they're compelled to walk, against the confines of the boxes to which society wants to confine them. Maybe they sense something they can't name, something they know is wrong and needs to be fixed, or an empty space where something should be.