Creative, gifted people have Rainforest Minds - with therapist Paula Prober

"Have you been identified as the problem in your family? Is your finely tuned sensitivity, unending research, probing curiosity, exquisite empathy, passionate creativity, accurate intuition, in-depth analysis, sweet optimism, and driven social conscience, misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and mystifying?"
From article: The Problem, Officer, Is That My Sister Is An Intellectual…”* -A Quick Guide To Your Rainforest Mind, by Paula Prober, a psychotherapist and consultant specializing in counseling gifted adults and youth.
The video thumbnail is from this article, and is also in podcast post with more of the audio interview with Prober: "Creative and Gifted, With a Rainforest Mind - Insights of Psychotherapist Paula Prober. Some of the complexities and challenges of being exceptional and neurodiverse."
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In her article "Counseling Gifted Adults - A Case Study” Paula Prober writes about Susan, who “had known that she was different since she was seven.
“Her thoughts and feelings had never fit into the box that was comfortable and reassuring for most children.
“Her appetite for learning was insatiable. Reading was more nourishing than food."
See another article with more by Prober, therapist Sharon M. Barnes, John Lennon, and others: Gifted and creative adults are different from an early age (highability.or...) .
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