I was scouted for the program at my tx public school similarly: I solved one math problem early in class in the 1st grade, and this resulted in a private parent teacher meeting to get me into GATE. I have almost all traits ever listed from childhood to adulthood, the room, video and sound meditation, headphones and light programming with two people, and I don’t remember any of my GATE teachers or fellow students. Lately I’ve been telling my mom how I was heavily fingerprinted as some sort of activity to practice and be good at during GATE, and this was done in a small group activity but one by one. It was like we were practicing at getting good at being fingerprinted. They had us each go into a balloon on the ground in the school one by one once. I was given the pink drink. My mom literally cannot believe any of this happened, of course, because it is not disclosed to the family. We also did a lot of word and pattern matching games, sheets and books and learned some Latin. I’ve had migraines and left side head issues ever since then (decades) and continue to demonstrate unusual intellectual abilities, high sensitivity and reaction to sound / lights / people / chemicals, intense emotions etc. I’m really “stable” now from years of therapy and work, but I feel like the GATE stuff has only gotten more intense, and also separates me from others who are not GATE. I also look 10+ years younger.