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There was no need for a museum of Antarctic art in DC: There is already a museum of Antarctic music and culture a few hours south in Richmond, VA. It's a pretty small facility though, about the size of a bar...

My daughter I wouldnt say is gifted but she's really mature for her age and has mostly friends 1-3 years older than her (she does have some same age or younger friends). She is really strong with reading and comprehension. She's 6.5 and can read at a grade 3-4 level and understand what she reads. She did Dragon Masters series up until she was 5.5 and loved it. Earlier this year she also read The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls series. She's currently reading The Little House on the Prairies (book #3) as part of her homeschool. Book #1 (Little House in the Big Woods) I did it as a read aloud about a year ago. Skipped #2 cuz that one can be read separately from the series. We also read directly from a real bible. We use ICB/NIrV (grade 3 reading level) so that she can read and understand it. She has just told me yesterday when I asked her what her favorite subject is and she said bible. Not to toot my own horn or anything, its just nice to know that your child loves reading God's word cuz that's is the foundation of everything in life (as a Christian). Math she is struggling a bit more and not as strong. She is technically in grade 1 and she's doing grade 2 math. I contemplated after a few weeks of doing the Primary Mathematics 2022 level 2 maybe I should've done level 1. And the more I looked into level 1, its tooo easy for her. So we stuck with level 2 and we just do it slower.

I’m gifted at English

I have a gifted+ADHD+ASD brain faild school massively when I was a child and teenager, as my brain didn't get activated and I got no dopamine for my brain doing endless of repetitions, and the slow pace of the teacher talking my brain runs on 1.5 speed level instead of the normal 1 speed level, and highly analytical and my pocesseing speed is super fast. I learned nothing before age 21 years old when I rebelled and did it my way, I learnt to learn the way my brain works. I always was told to be more like the others at home, in schools in clubs, I understood that as I am not good enough unless I do as everyone else, but that is physically impossible, but no one understood. So relatable, luckily we have the knowledge how to raise our gifted or 2E kids in a way that makes them feel loved and seen for just being their wonderful self, and the ability to teach them to accept and understand why others are unwilling or possibly unable to understand them and their learning style, but being misunderstood is a big part of our life we can teach our children to deal with in a healthier way than how we have dealt with it growing up and until we knew what kind of brain we were born with. Our 7 year old is already ahead in most subjects in school but isn't allowed to move in difficulty, so she actually learns something new and fun, because she copys her classmates to try to fit in socially, and struggle to do the endless repetition assignments she gets no dopamine or knowledge from. At home she gets to learn exactly what she wants in the difficulty she wants to learn it in, we are not pushing her just allowing her to develop and learn in her pace.

5:42 Teleporting 😂 Well said. But it’s like a spaceship- why waste time when I can teleport in various places and, once I find something interesting to explore, I stop and take my time exploring in depth or just enjoying it as aesthetic pleasure? Speaking of feeling like an alien… call me insane, I don’t care, but I am an alien. I must be, otherwise I cannot explain to myself what has been going on all of my rather miserable life amongst humans.

6:35 🤐 I feel you 😕 I am not gifted but many times my mind makes connections that are hilarious/ the perspective reveals something as funny that I laugh by myself. I am trying not to let it show because the others think I am insane. I might be insane but not really. It’s very isolating.

I never really classified myself as gifted until watching this video. Looking back it makes sense. I find conversing with AI does help sometimes as AI can keep up with the analogies that I use.

Also, a lot of times we work just like an NLP AI system and we constantly interrupt people in the middle of a sentence because we can predict what they will be saying next. I guess the capacity to store data allows us to develop predictive models.

Can you define gifted? iq level?

I’m not diagnosed but I decided to look into it… a relate to all what you said here, and didn’t ever consider any possibility of being different… I’m 42…😢

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I just learned from a file folder of seemingly lab rat level testing throughout my entire childhood that I’m somewhere between “highly” to “profoundly” gifted. Help. What do I do? What resources do I tap into?

Wow. This describes a lot of what I’m going through now 🙈

Hey Kathleen, I've recently found out about my giftedness too, and would love to make some like-minded friends. We're so alone right?! Its like always just living with and by ourselves no matter who's around. I've got a year old toddler as well so I want to ensure I can give him the structural and environmental support that I lacked, so he can bloom...any tips??

I don’t have depression. It’s past that point because I really don’t see the point of continuing to subject myself to abuse from the stupid. It is painful and downright insulting. Being with gifted people won’t solve the problem because I have met very intelligent people who are complete arseholes. I am an alien and I am SO going home. Or whatever, anywhere but here. I am done. 100%.

12:47 Not for me. On the contrary. My existential despair is due to the appalling lack of life in others. Most of the time I wonder if I am the only one left alive on this planet. It feels like walking through a cemetery filled with gloomy ghosts who can inflict harm due to their stupidity (mostly).

11:16 Maybe IQ goes hand in hand with EQ? Humans have very low emotional intelligence, especially in the West. They are dim in every damned respect.

7:40 But it’s not gonna work. Why waste time? Can we try something that might work? No. Of course not. Because the stupid idea is the other’s baby and it took him/ her 9 months to produce it; they’re not just gonna discard it. Let’s wait 18 years to see.

Very useful 🔥

What do you recommend for kiddos who have advanced past this book? I hope to find something similar, but further along in concepts.

One of the best uploads I have seen about the subject

I mean be better than than, or

Myself,my three son and my grandson who made us realize why we're the way we are. Thanks for explaining it more.

For a gifted preschooler, it's worth checking out the Right Start book "Activities for the AL Abacus." It presents a sequence of activities for teaching the concepts in the Right Start way. The difference is that it's not scheduled out into individual lessons, so you aren't facing a bunch of spiral review. You can just work through the activities in more of a mastery approach at your child's own speed. It also doesn't require as many manipulatives.

Like speaking a language that's not your native language when speaking with people. That resonated.

thank you!

I was identified as gifted as a child, and I am just now (re)discovering what that actually meant. As a child, it meant I was constantly a let-down for my family and teachers. As an adult it helps me understand why I have heard things like "you are a lot; you are too much; you are too intense; calm down; why do you care so much?; you overthink things; you make things too complicated; your solutions are unrealistic," etc my entire life. While internally, I have always wondered, "Why are other folks not more empathetic, self-aware, precise, focused on doing things well, obsessed with fairness?" etc. Finding folks like you on UA-cam is cathartic. It is validating to know that we are not alone in having this different way of experiencing human cognition. It is also fun to find random people on UA-cam that share mannerisms (gesticulation, very expressive face, fast speech) that are part of what the people in my life find unique about my way of expressing myself and my presence. It feels like more evidence that this really is a neurodiversity because I am finding a lot of us are very similar in our internal experience as well as how we present socially when we stop masking and show our true selves.

15 minutes for the 2 year old. 1 hour for the 4 year old.

Thank you. Counting sheep doesn't work. I tell myself stories too.

I am in the 'High Average' range of intelligence, so far from being gifted.

This video hit home so fucking hard. The thoughts about death when I was around 5 were so troubling. Thank you for this :)

I can’t do news anymore, either. A waste of mental space during these little years with my kids. Because I’m constantly analyzing any issue, getting irritated at stupid policies, etc, I just had to cut the hand off. I never thought I had ADHD till I was a stay at home mom. The house was constantly a mess till I’d actually think about it, and try to get into routine. I was researching ADHD, and realized, most of my problems with the mundane things probably rather stem from giftedness. I guess I could potentially have ADHD, but I think I’m just too engrossed in thinking about philosophical notions and theology to care that much I have 7 loads of laundry to put away. 😂 who knows.

That’s why I said…not doing photography for money ever again. 😂 Does Q-tip addiction count?

Well this one is for you in the ASD community 31 per cent of them have high IQ. In other words only 2 per cent of the community are gifted and nearly a third of them have ASD. Get yourself evaluated for autism spectrum. Not having social interaction is one of the markers, then communication problems, finally restrictive interest.

time to follow you i also have a kid that just turned 5 year a couple of days ago, he is very into math (on a level similar to 10-11 year olds) , space (seems to be a common theme), tought himself to speak english by the age of 3, and as you say very emotional, when he uses the ipad he never consumes "dumb content" but are always on educational videos trying to learn new things.

Hard relate to most of it, especially the existential crises and feelings of meaninglessness. I feel like it is currently a lot more trendy to just call giftedness "autism", which makes everyone think it is great to be diagnosed with it, and is harmful to the people who actually are autistic.

I don't know if I'm gifted, but I relate a lot to most of the things you share, specially the existential part, the intensity of the emotions... Thank you so much for sharing :)

This is 100%! I grew up feeling very Alien, I was always called a genius or gifted because I was doing things far beyond my age in electronics and art, yet I felt this dreaded feeling I wasn't good enough because I didn't feel myself like the others or fitting into the social norms.. Then about 10 years ago I got tested and found I was highly gifted, I still feel I'm broken in a sense but hearing videos like this help me to feel like I'm not alone. I did have a community of gifted people and I felt so connected to them, but we are so few.. Thanks so much for this!! I'm also like you where I found other ways than getting addicted to drugs or anything like that. but when I'm stressed I will overindulge in these things just as much. Luckily my wife is very good at keeping up with my thoughts and I feel she also fits the gifted category

I (33, male) found out I am gifted last week (although I feel rather dumb and incompetent). All my life I tried to figure out how the mind and consciousness work, and became a Jungian therapist in the process, unable to establish myself as a professional for fear of stepping into the sphere of conventional society. Now, I would like to ask for support and reflections on some issues I experience acutely. My desire is to be heard and understood, and not feel so lonely in all this: The issues: I struggle with having to explain myself a lot. It's like people just don't grasp what I am trying to say, even though I am spelling things out as clearly as I can. It's like I have to translate a million nuanced reasonings, background, influences and impacts into a pre-packaged block of meat. Only, they rarely get the 'meat'; staring at me rather emptily and uncomprehending. I can't get over how I feel like, even when I downsize my message to a 'bite', it just doesn't land. I also struggle with setting boundaries, and communicating them on an appropriate level. I feel like I reject someone utterly when I am overstimulated and want to get away from them completely. But, because of social conventions, I cannot state the boundary, or express how I am really feeling. Party because I don't want to be seen as a party-pooper, partly because I don't want to hurt the other person, partly because I dare not express my needs and desires for fear of retaliation or abandonment, and partly because I feel like I would break the social atmosphere, and enter into an awkward, mismatched vibe. And example: Yesterday, I went to the sauna with two friends whom I had not seen in a while as a birthday occasion. One guy, who I know to be hyperactive and demanding, simply would not stop making noises, jokes, etc. The sauna is like a silent prayer to me, and I treasure the reverent atmosphere. However, these two were making constant jokes, riffing off of each other, and being rather profane (as opposed to the Sacred). Since I am struggling with long-covid, my energy reserve is limited, and I tend to get overstimulated swifter than most people. My issue here was that I could not find the courage to just say: "listen, I want to enjoy the sauna in silence, and I cannot bear more overstimulation, because it gives me stress and anxiety". Instead, I stated a couple of boundaries (particularly inside the sauna's) and hoped that the sauna itself would relax me. However, I just froze over, and got more stressed. I felt like I could not possibly set the boundary as deep as I felt I wanted to, namely entirely; I did not want to be around them AT ALL. I felt like this would be an existential rejection on my part, where I would reject them (this one friend in particular) on a fundamental, existential level. I felt like I was not part of the social interactions, and that when I would interrupt that, there would only be awkwardness and disconnection, or rejection of me and my needs. The result was that I got more and more stressed, and rejected my own feelings. Also, when someone tells me something, responds to what I'm saying, or asks me a question, I shut down because there are three things that I want to say immediately and at the same time. Like the bandwidth of my communication doesn't allow a highway on my 'single lane'. I then feel stupid when people don't understand when I downsize my message, and order them into sequential steps. People so rarely get the big picture. Sometimes a person makes a statement that is so distorted and twisted that I freeze up, feeling the acute urgency to 'untangle' the presumptions and ideas behind said statement, only to let the moment slip by and feel blocked. This happens particularly when I am being gaslighted by my mother, who doesn't understand me, and tries to help me by flat out commanding me to do things, which I obviously have all thought about and am working on. This makes me feel like I am not seen for who I am and what I can and can't do, and makes me feel unworthy and misunderstood. Often, when this happens, I freeze up and consider whether I am an asshole or if I am simply misinterpreting it, or being triggered without cause; in other words, if there is something wrong with me, or that I miss something. I don't dare to outright set a boundary and tell her (and others) that I think she/they is/are wrong, out of fear of rejection or being exposed as a weirdo, bigot or moron. One of my biggest anxieties is that I am unworthy because I am not intelligent enough. I simply feel rather stupid a lot of the time, and, at the same time, I feel like a monstrously overqualified, unrecognized genius, feeling the despair of not living up to my potential, and wasting away with chronic illness after a life of anxious overcompensation that's led to burnout and depression. Having to pretend like I am dumb, adapting to social conventions, being misunderstood, misjudged and attacked verbally, as well as physically by my mother when I was a child, has made me feel exhausted, unnerved, and desperate. 'Never-again will I adapt, nevermore will I sacrifice my soul!', I scream internally, the pressure inside pushing against the corporeal limitations of my being, and yet - and yet - I collapse, I cringe time and time again; I freeze, I scream against these bars around my heart and mind. I am lost. I feel alone. 'No one gets me', I sigh once more; silence sets in, a silence of a broken man; gutted, grieving. I hurt myself tremendously when I shut myself down, try to fit it, swallow my words or feelings and adapt to an unseen convention of social interactions, and I want to learn how to navigate, if not overcome, these issues.

Okay wow I relate to this video so, so much. You vocalized the cons perfectly.

I’ve never felt so seen as I have in the first 4 minutes 🥹

Very well described.

I have been slapped around with the 'gifted' label all my life. When I was very young, I could draw, I was good in school (all subjects except PE), and I was constantly told, 'Oh, you're so smart, everything just comes easily for you.' That is an unbelievably toxic thing to say to a child. My ego and my expectations went through the roof because of it. The subsequent hazing and verbal bludgeoning I got from the other kids was confusing and terrifying. As an adult, I knew I was special, but I was totally lost because I didn't know how to access any of it. I recognize every point in your list as something I have personal experience with. Over the last 15 years I have finally gotten myself together, but it's been a hard road. Giftedness is something we give to the world and the people around us. For ourselves, we simply learn survival.

The Dragonmasters series did that for my son at 6! We started the first one and we took turns reading. And then he realized “wait I can read without you?” And DEVOURED the rest of the series. I had to limit him to one a day because I had just bought the whole series thinking it would take some time.

I’ve never taken an IQ test, but I can relate to many of the challenges associated with being gifted. However, one thing I struggle with is learning quickly. I tend to overcomplicate topics, which causes me to lose sight of the simplicity, especially in subjects like math. In primary school, teachers would explain things in a straightforward way, but I found their methods too shallow, which made me feel like I didn’t really understand, leading to poor results. At university, I learned to simplify my thinking, which helped, but I still need time to fully grasp topics. I often require more background information to connect the dots and feel confident in my understanding, which results in longer learning curves. While this process allows me to know more details than my peers, the fast pace of school doesn’t always give me the time I need to delve deeper into subjects. So, it makes me wonder whether my learning style and approach still fit the profile of giftedness, despite these challenges..

what do you mean by gifted? Born in to wealtjy familay?

My son is also likely gifted. We have kept our formal schooling pretty light thus far (though we are going year round as it keeps us in a better routine). He is nearly 5 and I'm considering this year "kindergarten." We are currently doing 1st grade Singapore math and 1st grade language arts/literature from Masterbooks and spend about 30 minutes a day schooling, though he also spends a lot of time throughout the day reading books as well. We've done science here and there but his homeschool co-op is doing science this semester so I don't worry about doing it at home.