<p>Opie: I have a D who is both gifted and has an LD. Of all her siblings and her bright friends, she was the only one who did not have a big struggel when the workload reached a level which could not be addressed by just being smart, but rather required hard work. Because she had always worked hard to stay up with the work, due to her LD, yet others to whom it had come so easily, there was a time, usually around grade 10/11 when the workload escalated dramatically, it never got “hard” for her, because it had always been hard, whereas the other kids were so surprised.</p>