How many gifted boys between the ages of 11-13 have committed suicide in the last two years? How many are at risk because of being bullied? What factors help create a helpless victim at risk, or a gifted boy who thrives even in a culture of bullying? There might just be a convergence of factors that if identified and understood can reduce the risk to gifted preteen boys. We look at what those factors are and how they can exacerbate one another to the detriment of the gifted student everybody is supposed to be educating.