Omg I'm 8 minutes in and I had the same experience with that film! We watched it at school, and I was in floods of tears at the end - the only kid to have that reaction - I remember the teachers being really concerned and I was just so embarrassed!
Yes, at such a high speed of processing, things can get out of control. This work here can help get the most out of our worlds profoundly gifted. We now know, thanks to the patient and kind understanding of researchers, what one may be going through. And that such a gift makes a difference in others lives.
This is some stunning stuff. Virtuosity and the addiction to the thrill of the high wire act - a theme that resonates deeply with me. Across my life, I see peaks and troughs plotted as a sine wave across time, scabrous behavior trending to bathos followed by prodigious spikes in performance, spikes that occasionally border on the fictional. Example: I spent a fair portion of my high school years attending rock concerts, riding a motorcycle (at age 14 and without a license), living shacked up with my girlfriend, and paying little attention to my academic work. I was fortunate to get into college, at all, yet three years from my 18th birthday, I had a graduate degree from Stanford University and I had been accepted into law school. Somewhere along the way, I took (under timed, proctor-supervised conditions) the Terman Concept Mastery Test (form T) and I scored above the 99.9th percentile of the general population. I flunked out of law school, then earned a M.S. in Information & Telecommunication Systems from Johns Hopkins University.
Great analogy with the savannah cape story about not wanting to disappoint and by hiding anything perceive as a bad abnormal trait even misconstrued “talent”
IQ 132 and watching this video now I understand one thing: My anticipatory apologies reflect my internal self-criticism, a way to protect myself from possible external judgment by admitting first what I perceive as insufficient. Therefore my apology might be a mechanism to soften possible criticism or to show preemptive empathy for how the other person might feel about the outcome. This sounds so much as something I have always done! I now understand that this has always been closely tied to the low self-esteem I’ve perceived in myself. For example, while playing sports, I would often tell myself that I wasn’t good enough, constantly apologizing and feeling like I was a failure. In fact i am pretty good. But I keep kind of insulting myself for every mistake. This realization helps me connect the dots. Funny thing i don´t feel smart at all. In fact, i swear no one has ever told me how smart I am. I feel so normal, but as I get old (37) I guess I feel a bit different from the rest. I learn fast and i am very sensitive, I guess no one felt I am smart because the things I like are music, philosophy, sports... yeah, and a lot otf things too, but i was never a good student. Just a normal one.
Oh my goodness….. Thank you for the wonderful sharing ! You speak me, as this morning frozen natural country beauty almost made me burst into ✨…. Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
I think my kid may be one of these. My wife and i are both intelligent (my iq was tested at 132). My wife is probably around the same. But our son is beyond anything we’ve seen. He is 5 and was just tested. We get full results in a couple weeks. He has had a lot of developmental issues, while also being the smartest person in every room he goes into. People have such high expectations for him, yet get so frustrated with him cuz they cant accept he has multiple developmental ages. He is still an over excited 5 yr old boy.
In 6th grade our science teacher asked us to calculate how much air a room in a ship could hold. I froze really terrified and walked up to him and said sorry I have no idea how to account for air compression and also are we assuming a perfect seal on the room? He looked at me puzzled and said. No 😂… I thought then why ask such a flawed question🤷🏽♂️
I would assume because profoundly giftedness pushes the brain and especially emotions to extremes towards the limits of our human capacity to handle them. Same for the raw data bandwidth and the connections being made.. that causes some funny and challenging behaviors which can present like other things that break or push the brain which express some similar patterns (at the surface) like bipolar and autism. 😊
Can mimic each other. A PG person can all have these so-called disorders and can actually turn them into their favor. It can be a continuum I'd say. A lot of Bipolar people are creative and a huge chunk of giftedness is creativity
Omg I'm 8 minutes in and I had the same experience with that film! We watched it at school, and I was in floods of tears at the end - the only kid to have that reaction - I remember the teachers being really concerned and I was just so embarrassed!
Man I just googled it and wtf is wrong with people. Yours seems like the only reaction to have really, especially for children.
Yes, at such a high speed of processing, things can get out of control. This work here can help get the most out of our worlds profoundly gifted. We now know, thanks to the patient and kind understanding of researchers, what one may be going through. And that such a gift makes a difference in others lives.
This is some stunning stuff. Virtuosity and the addiction to the thrill of the high wire act - a theme that resonates deeply with me. Across my life, I see peaks and troughs plotted as a sine wave across time, scabrous behavior trending to bathos followed by prodigious spikes in performance, spikes that occasionally border on the fictional. Example: I spent a fair portion of my high school years attending rock concerts, riding a motorcycle (at age 14 and without a license), living shacked up with my girlfriend, and paying little attention to my academic work. I was fortunate to get into college, at all, yet three years from my 18th birthday, I had a graduate degree from Stanford University and I had been accepted into law school. Somewhere along the way, I took (under timed, proctor-supervised conditions) the Terman Concept Mastery Test (form T) and I scored above the 99.9th percentile of the general population. I flunked out of law school, then earned a M.S. in Information & Telecommunication Systems from Johns Hopkins University.
Great analogy with the savannah cape story about not wanting to disappoint and by hiding anything perceive as a bad abnormal trait even misconstrued “talent”
Thankyou so much for this podcast.
IQ 132 and watching this video now I understand one thing: My anticipatory apologies reflect my internal self-criticism, a way to protect myself from possible external judgment by admitting first what I perceive as insufficient. Therefore my apology might be a mechanism to soften possible criticism or to show preemptive empathy for how the other person might feel about the outcome.
This sounds so much as something I have always done!
I now understand that this has always been closely tied to the low self-esteem I’ve perceived in myself. For example, while playing sports, I would often tell myself that I wasn’t good enough, constantly apologizing and feeling like I was a failure. In fact i am pretty good. But I keep kind of insulting myself for every mistake. This realization helps me connect the dots.
Funny thing i don´t feel smart at all. In fact, i swear no one has ever told me how smart I am. I feel so normal, but as I get old (37) I guess I feel a bit different from the rest. I learn fast and i am very sensitive, I guess no one felt I am smart because the things I like are music, philosophy, sports... yeah, and a lot otf things too, but i was never a good student. Just a normal one.
Oh my goodness…..
Thank you for the wonderful sharing !
You speak me, as this morning frozen natural country beauty almost made me burst into ✨….
Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
I think my kid may be one of these. My wife and i are both intelligent (my iq was tested at 132). My wife is probably around the same. But our son is beyond anything we’ve seen. He is 5 and was just tested. We get full results in a couple weeks. He has had a lot of developmental issues, while also being the smartest person in every room he goes into. People have such high expectations for him, yet get so frustrated with him cuz they cant accept he has multiple developmental ages. He is still an over excited 5 yr old boy.
Have you seen where the children overthink a simple problem because of the way they think?
In 6th grade our science teacher asked us to calculate how much air a room in a ship could hold. I froze really terrified and walked up to him and said sorry I have no idea how to account for air compression and also are we assuming a perfect seal on the room?
He looked at me puzzled and said. No 😂… I thought then why ask such a flawed question🤷🏽♂️
Why does this sound like you’re describing bipolar ?
I would assume because profoundly giftedness pushes the brain and especially emotions to extremes towards the limits of our human capacity to handle them. Same for the raw data bandwidth and the connections being made.. that causes some funny and challenging behaviors which can present like other things that break or push the brain which express some similar patterns (at the surface) like bipolar and autism.
😊
Can mimic each other. A PG person can all have these so-called disorders and can actually turn them into their favor. It can be a continuum I'd say. A lot of Bipolar people are creative and a huge chunk of giftedness is creativity