TIL: Being intellectually gifted is a spectrum of neurodivergence and does not automatically mean the person is/will be a genius in anything - eviltoast

Other points:

  • it’s not mutually exclusive with any other neurodivergence, in which case they’re “twice exceptional”;
  • In an environment with unprepared people and professionals, they may be wrongly diagnosed as having some other neurodivergence.
  • It’s not just a high IQ score;
  • Gifted kids can be problem students and have low grades;
  • Homework feels like torture (this is true to any child, tho);
  • They’re very likely to question authorities and point out perceived hypocrisy (emphasis here on perceived, because pointing something and being right are different things);
  • As kids, they may have weird quirks for executing tasks, such as wanting to hold pencils the “wrong” way, or wanting to press against a wall to do homework;

If you’re Brazilian or can understand Brazilian Portuguese, this is the podcast I listened to - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apnuIIePeeA

Aos brasileiros que acabarem encontrando esse post, o podcast que assisti é o que linkei acima

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devOPEnglish
    81·
    2 months ago

    but I can tell that “Gifted” as a term is not what you’ve presented in your post, not as of five years ago when my kid got placed into gifted classes and I went back looking into it and comparing it to what it was when I was a kid.

    I blame the english language, then. The Venn diagram MelodiousFunk posted should hopefully help visualize what I meant somewhat

    I’m just saying that the post here doesn’t really provide anything useful to someone coming across it. There’s no meat here.

    Hard to distill almost 3 hours of talk into a lemmy post, but a valid point

    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, the diagram does a good job. And, English is a bitch lol. It’s hard enough as a native language to navigate all the weird rules and usages.