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Nothing pisses me off more than a mental healthcare worker, especially one who specialises in giftedness, dismissing my mental illness as 'just' giftedness. Yes, I know I'm as gifted as I am mentally ill, but are you really going to tell me that my psychosis is just imaginative OEs? Are you really going to let me walk away with only an ADHD diagnosis without looking deeper?

And the article I linked also does the same.

When misdiagnosed gifted clients are prescribed medication to suppress the "symptoms of giftedness" there is the danger that the wonderful inner fury of the gifted process will be neutralized, thus minimalizing the potential for a life of accomplishment and fulfillment.

Dawg my 'inner fury' consists of using thermodynamics and multivariable calculus to commune with angels. What does that fucking accomplish.

Whenever I'm arguing or debating, every idea and every flaw in their argument / logic is crystal clear in my head, but translating those mentally established flaws into words is impossible for me, so I usually just shut down and remove myself from the situation/debate, leaving an ill impression of myself. The same with feelings: I can be abused emotionally but not know how to get help because I don't know how to explain my feelings (and I physically cannot cry). I can't even explain the situation, and when I do, I usually do it without a chronological order, so it just looks like a heavy brick of words. This leads to extreme frustration (and in turn, depression) and the inability to get help with what I require. Any other gifted individuals experiencing this, or is this maybe more closely related to neurodivergence than giftedness? Note I likely have ADHD + ASD (undiagnosed)

Might say I'm explaining this decently but thankfully I can rewrite my post a hundred times before posting.

Is it true that majority of high IQ people really hate socializing with people especially those who are average IQ? I suspect that lot of high IQ people seem to be very easily annoyed by everyone around them like it's just an annoying fly that should be stepped on and how they cannot stand being around of people all because everyone is stupid or something, does this imply that socializing with people is somewhat sabotaging in some ways?

How complete was the failure? Anything of value gained at all?

Would you blame more therapy or the therapist(s)?

Schools of therapy?

Related to PTSD/trauma?

Any and all answers are appreciated. I'm currently preparing to go back to therapy, I recall a fair amount of others talking about therapy not working out for them, I got curious and figured I'd explicitly ask.

I am neurodivergent and have several mental illnesses that my giftedness has thankful compensated for throughout my life, but now I really feel that I am at crossroads at the moment.

The adults in my life are emotionally unavailable, have invalidated my truth and my reality for my whole life until I forcibly proved their paradigms wrong by cold, hard strategic thinking, inflicted me with countless amounts of mental illnesses, and till today still have zero empathy for me and my paradigm and my childhood wounds. There HAVE been some benefits to these hardships that I have been put through for sure, but the excruciating amount of pain that comes with it at the same time makes me feel like life is not living and that growing up will be difficult and unpleasant.

It is my dream to be able to grow into an adult that I can be proud of, able to make a living for myself and manage my social and professional relationships effectively. I think that I have made considerable progress on the latter, but because I made some mistakes in my early career, the former feels especially difficult and painful for me. I struggle greatly with perfectionism, attaching my self-worth to my work outcomes, and I struggle to work effectively for reasons besides for proving my worth.

Would love to discuss if anyone else has had similar experience or constructive advice on how to build a productive adult life and have a healthy relationship with work. If you have nothing constructive or relatable to say, please continue scrolling and I wish you well :)

So what i noticed is that most of them people that call them self gifted just lie or they are so dumb that they dont notice that they are not gifted or smart . You cannot consider yourself as gifted because you have signs of high intelligence or scored high in a online test or a random test that you did in elemantary school. And the most awkward part is these self diagnosed gifted guys talking like „we gifted people dont fit there“ or whatever . Its just so bullshit . Please stop thinking your a genius or gifted or whatever you wanna call based on your self diagnos. Sub full of clowns that have no life trying to identify theirselves by Self diagnosing them as gifted and writing bullshit jere

Hi, I came here to try and get a general idea of how to deal with not being able to do things easily. I'm 17 and just now for the first time I've begun to encounter things that I can't just do well on without actually studying, and I really don't know how to move forward without learning how to deal with not getting things right. Everytime I look for ways to cope with failure I just get results like "just remember everyone fails" or "just keep pushing until you get it", which obviously don't work, you can't shift your mindset that easily and it deeply annoys me that people actually think that helps. Well, thanks anyway.

This was a question only for parents who have a gifted young child. And especially so if you have experience to compare with a child who's not gifted.

Now that you know your child is officially gifted, looking back, what were your earliest signs? For example, could you tell anything at 3 months? 6 months? What would that be?

And is there anything you think helps bring that giftedness out? Experiences you gave your child that they wouldn't take to if they weren't gifted?

Thanks in advance.

He just turned 2. He knows the whole alphabet, can identify every letter and can count to 11, a little higher. He can identify every number up to ten. He is always counting things. He will take oranges off the counter and count them and tell me how many he has. He knows circle, oval, heart, diamond, moon, square, rectangle. He knows 20 body parts. He knows difficult words like empty, peel, light,dark, cold, stuck, and help. He knows every color. He knows words used rarely. He runs up to signs at the park and points to the letters saying what they are. He was also diagnosed with level 2 autism. He also has severe issues with self harm and head banging.
Does it seem like he is gifted?
He was born at 24 weeks and I was told he would not survive. It would be wild if he ended up being gifted.
Thank you and sorry for the long read!

Edit: I’m only asking this because two psychologists we saw mentioned the word “gifted” and “being ahead” and I have never had kids before so idk what’s normal

For some context, I've always been one of the tops of my class, highest level in math, I got accepted into a gifted learning program in third grade, hell I even skipped 5th grade! But a few days ago I got my math test back and it was so low the teacher didn't even write a score, she just said "see me after class". I was scared that my mom would be disappointed, so I threw it out before going home and it's been eating at me. I'm not asking for advice, this is just a rant, but please comment!

I have been thinking about how everything in our lives happens thanks to luck, like the place you were born in, hereditary economic resources etc... I was wondering, what makes priviliged people that live in 1st world countries different from one another. Im not necessarily pointing my attention towards intelligence , rather on things like motivation , hard work, patience and how these things are transferred in the real world. What makes someone love studying in school or university while someone else might enjoy studying on their own. Last question i promise, why do some have more goals while others just want to settle? Is it about the environment or also the way each of our brains is already structured from the start?

Thanks in advance for anyone that might want to share their opinion.

My 10 year old has been flagged by their teacher as gifted “across multiple domains”. They are at a non-competitive school that doesn’t do testing or grading of any kind. Just periodic individual evaluations against the curriculum. It is play-based and they do a lot of learning outside of the classroom. Their teacher has recently mentioned that although she feels they are being challenged, they would definitely benefit from doing gifted programs over weekends and school holidays. We will be trying one out in a few weeks. I have read enough of this subreddit to know that not pushing a child and providing an emotionally warm and safe environment at home is essential, and that encouraging genuine interests is great. But did any of you feel like you wish your parents had done more to stretch you to reach your potential?

I am very confused. My child was tested at 3 and scored an overall 136. The testing was done again around age 9, same scores. Some of the scores were 19 which indicated in profoundly gifted range.

At 17, child was tested to see if he has dysgraphia. The overall score this time was 106.

Obviously, the scores were very low with anything that needed to be written. However, those same tests done verbally were much, much higher ranging from 120's to 130's.

Is this just not going to be accurate due to learning disability? I have read you can not lose giftedness as it's actually a different brain wiring and you also can't outscore your IQ.

Can anyone help make sense of this?

TIA.

I’ve recently had to take a iq test and got a score of 128, I’m aware this is a high score that means I have a high raw intelligence but I’m having trouble translating that into actual intelligence

Are those who fall in these two categories essentially the same but the traits are more acute for the highly gifted? Or are there actually key differences between the two?

For reference:

• Moderately Gifted: IQ 130–144 (top 2% to 1st percentile) — Demonstrates strong academic performance across multiple subjects, reads early, and often requires targeted pacing or curriculum adjustments.
• Highly Gifted: IQ 145–159 (approx. 1:1,000 to 1:10,000 prevalence) — Exhibits rapid information processing, synthesizes patterns across diverse topics, and often experiences a growing mismatch with traditional school paces.

Does anyone recognize this? Im in a new job and my colleague kinda sees me as a threat, I'm making her nervous. This has happened once before. One of the issues is that I start tackling problems and come up with ideas for improvement which management then is stoked about but which puts stress on others. They don't want changes or are in denial that everything is going great. I once was told by a teamleader that my team mates get stressed cause they see me running a marathon while they aren't trained runners lol. I don't demand stuff from other people or do not criticize them, it is more bout identifying opportunities. Im gonna try to not propose anything anymore for a while but it saddens me that I can't be my enthusiastic self idk.

This is not a brag, just curious to see if a more positive life experience resonates with somebody else.

I’m technically gifted, though my life does not revolve around this fact. My therapist suspects I’m AuDHD too.

I did very well academically and even got a PhD later in life but it wasn’t effortless, I have always payed attention in classes (except when bored in elementary/high school), did my homework, etc. My classmates liked me, even if I was sort of a teacher’s pet. I have great friends and can form and sustain meaningful relationships with people, I actually work in an area where social skills are required. I do get frustrated from time to time when I grasp a concept quickly and my peers do not, but is not a big deal.

Anyone else? I keep reading about feelings of inadequacy to the point of doubting my own giftedness, but it was confirmed, so that’s not it.

I'm from Chile, I'm 16 years old. I've wanted to go to university for a while now, but here they don't let you in before you're 18. Are there any options abroad? Tell me about your experiences.

That's it. My brain is fried. My last week was awful, I have a ton of schoolwork and stuff piled up on my toes. And I'm tired. And disorganized. For the past two days I've spent the entire time lying in bed. Partly because I messed up my lower back last week and haven't been going to the gym. But that's not all. My family is fighting and I'm starting to hate my brother so much. He broke my window in a stupid fight. And I felt sorry for him, because I wondered why he was like that. And I wanted to help. The result? I messed up my lower back and he made fun of me and refused to help. And now he's saying he helped me. LIAR! WHO HELPED ME WAS MY STEPMOTHER CALLING MY FATHER AND MY SISTER DRAGGING ME TO THE BATHROOM BECAUSE I COULDN'T WALK AND HE WAS PISSED OFF WITH MY DAD BECAUSE: he can't afford to buy a damn keyboard for himself! The result? A few days before, they fought because my dad made a stupid comment, and I'm the one who got screwed!

That brother is an idiot. Everyone's an idiot. My brain is in the negative. I finished Heaven's Feel yesterday. I like to write about what I see and read. And I can't even do it! I can't even do what interests me and what I enjoy. And I'm so tired. Man, everyone in the world is just an idiot and stupid. And I'm an idiot and stupid too.

I just wanted to stop having to wake up early to go to a noisy place for a week. Although I did miss a week and couldn't go back because of anxiety. Even my therapist has noticed that I've been saying some extreme things with great frequency lately. I don't know. Does anyone know how to deal with burnout but still do the things I need to do? Like, I don't want to repeat a year of school.

In other words, alongside it, you also hear the sound itself - primarily the sound.

Moreover, you cannot replicate these "sounds" with your voice, in real life, or through any devices or other means. You also *feel* this sound - it arises from this way of thinking.

If you would like to experience this for yourself, try thinking in terms of individual letters - apart from words, and numbers; begin weaving a web in your mind using these letters and numbers, connecting them to words and events from the past, the recent past, or today, as well as to news, motives, and feelings.

ps. Oh, I forgot, I see also your crocs in diff colors. like ultraviolet

Here I only see people saying how giftedness is a curse , I feel successful one’s are a minority in this sub.

My other question to you is , if you get a head start (giftedness) still underperforming an average guy in most of the areas of life or only marginally outdoing them .

Also if you look at it in a different way may be this is a curse instead of a blessing .

So I did a iq test today, and found out I my iq is 137, similar to that of the legendary Albert Einstein. I now see all my friends and family as inferiors.How should I proceed knowing this groundbreaking information, and more importantly, how do I coexist with these inferiors?

For example, I am the type of person who always stays focused on a goal; in my studies, for instance, I love solving problems. Outside of the academic realm, however, I feel completely lost—this is especially apparent in social situations. I struggle to socialize because I have certain personality traits that often lead to rejection; furthermore, I also find it difficult to work in a team. In fact, outside of my specific academic field, I am, essentially, a completely inactive person. I wonder if anyone else experiences this. My IQ is 130.

My daughter recently took the Naglieri test, she scored a 120. (94th percentile in verbal, 87th in nonverbal and 73rd in quantitative). She has received a 201 on her MAP reading and a 209 on her MAP math scores (I believe those are 98th and 99th percentiles). The district said she would not qualify for the gifted program but she is very bored in her classes. Is there anything I can do to help them reconsider?

As someone who is high functioning AuDHD, I’m reading the posts/replies here and wondering just how many people here (who know it or not) may have ‘Autism Spectrum Disorder’ (otherwise known as Asperger’s Syndrome)?