I have a severely ED 1 st grader who asked me today , without prompt If we have so much blood in our bodies , and our blood is mostly water , why can we still burn to death ? He ' s 6 , and none of his other teachers or the school psychologist think he ' s gifted because his terrible behavior causes him to miss entire lessons , if he ' s even willing to attempt them at all , and his ADHD won ' t allow him to sit through any type of assessment longer than 5 minutes . I ' ve had more thought provoking conversations with him than a lot of my adult friends . He once told me , when misbehaving , that if I told his mom on him , she would throw his toys out , and considering she works hard for the money she spends on those toys , my telling on him would only be wasting her hard earned money . He got to that conclusion entirely himself , without prompting or external influence . Yet no one else thinks he ' s gifted because he gets his math homework all wrong . I feel like he ' s destined to be an evil genius .