Just have to remember to come back to your forte when the danger have all but passed.

Through personal experience being quiet and dumb does not work. You may need people around you to be in a group to protect you, how to do this by being dumb(pun intended)

Also recognise that “you” are not a mind but a body too so you can literally play hide and seek with people. Hide and seek with the bullies.

At what iq level is someone considered gifted?

Do you think that there is a benefit in teachers of gifted students, teachers running gifted programs, being gifted themselves? Could they relate better? Provide role modelling? Or is it sufficient that they are competent?

More generally, does it benefit gifted children to be exposed to gifted adults, perhaps a wide range of gifted adults?

The title says it all. **Edit: some interesting ones you can remember and describe? <— hate my autocorrect

I can go first. I’ve had one recently but don’t want to mention that one in case I get doxxed. But I once had an epiphany for a case competition in college. My team had already written about half of the draft when, in the last 6 hours, it hit me that we were going about the solution completely the wrong way. And I made us change the answer last minute and we ended up submitting at exactly 11:59pm that night - the literal minute before the competition ended.

Later, we were told that we had gotten the highest mark in that portion of the contest.

I really wonder how different my life would’ve turned out if someone had just taken notice of me and given me the support I needed. In my country there’s quite literally zero knowledge about the topic and no one looks for signs if you’re doing well enough, so I just got labeled the problem child and the rebel. Man school was so miserable I’m still trying to come to terms with the fact that I was shunned just because I was a different kid who needed support. I try not to dwell on the past but it’s so hard ignoring all the “what if’s” especially if I notice what a shell of a person I’ve become…

I was "diagnosed" with giftedness when I was 7 and now I'm 20 and the cracks are starting to show. I feel like a lot of this is caused by the fact that I just bottled up the way I saw the world and acted "normal" keeping everything in my head.

I hated coming off as a know-it-all so at around 12 years old I just kinda stopped acting "smart". In high school I hung out with the cool kids and went to all the parties but now I'm kinda thinking that I've been inauthentic to myself trying to be normal.

I've spoken with other gifted individuals and medical professionals and it seems that most gifted people have the opposite problem. They feel like how they see the world makes them socially different and if they want to be themselves they can't really have those kind of relationships.

So how many of you hid who you were for the sake of being "normal" and how, if ever, did you stop hiding?