How mental health symptoms can be reframed as positive - Chris Wells on Overexcitability https://highability.org/7791/

#giftedadults #intenseminds #highability #2eadult #twiceexceptional #neurodivergent

Do you suffer from Impostor Syndrome? Kate Arms from Embracing Intensity interview

Podcast episode

"Impostor syndrome is something that most people have felt at some point or another. Intense people may feel this in magnified ways, as the world tells them they are not welcome as they are."

https://thecreativemind.net/8467/

#impostor #imposter #highability

The complex experience of being a 2e adult [podcast]

Julie Skolnick summarizes: "Twice exceptional or 2E is a person identified as gifted with a learning difference or learning disability.

"We don't outgrow our giftedness or our 2E-ness. It's something that's with us throughout our life..."

Find link to the podcast episode (and transcript) in The Creative Mind Magazine ▸ https://paper.li/TheCreativeMind?edition_id=fc2908d0-7047-11ed-9d70-fa163ed80008

#giftedadults #neurodivergent #ADHD #ASD #highability

“I still have pretty much the same fears I had as a kid.

“I’m not sure I’d want to give them up; a lot of these insecurities fuel the movies I make.”

– Writer, producer, director Steven Spielberg

Gifted, Talented, Creative, Anxious
https://highability.org/621/gifted-talented-creative-anxious/

#artistlife #anxiety #highability

2E Adult, Gifted, Neurodivergence - Do labels help?

https://youtu.be/qCJQtfGNwY4

“A lot of labels are useful... But at the same time, if we’re too reliant on labels, then they can become a sole focus of our identity...or can also separate us from other people and create an ‘us and them’ situation.”

See her related video in article: 2E Adult, Gifted, Neurodivergence - Do labels help? With Aurora Remember

https://highability.org/7733/

#giftedadults #neurodivergent #ADHD #ASD #highability

Unusually intelligent and creative people can enjoy many pleasures and benefits of those advantages, but there may also be emotional challenges.

#LadyGaga, for example, “felt like freak” in high school. She was identified as a gifted adolescent, and at age 17 achieved early admission to New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

See more in article Challenged By Being So Smart https://highability.org/6331/challenged-smart/
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