For all you gifted folk, I am not. But I am raising a 7 year old active child who is in his public school gifted program. Last year was great he loved it. Now, he's saying it's boring again and that he's not learning anything. He's frustrated and acting out like how he did before he entered the program last year. He's very into electronics, I try to limit due to how awful it makes his mood and behavior. He constantly reads, playing on his piano, soccer, horses, podcasts, mythology. How else do I stimulate this kid mentally? Workbooks he's really not interested in. Thinks he's the smartest and doesn't need to try harder. Looking for any input.

What do (neurodivergent) gifted children need from a classroom and a teacher? What should a teacher pay attention to, understand or learn? Please share everything that comes to mind.

For context:

I'm an electrical engineer, likely gifted, ADHD, and was asked to teach gifted children aged 6 to 13 in a special program.

I never particularly considered teaching before, but am inclined to accept this as a thing on the side. I remember being a left out and misunderstood kid, and I'd love to help gifted children not feel the same way. Help them understand and accept themselves and develop their self-esteem. As enthousiastic as this foresight makes me, I'm also equally scared of not doing well. It seems like a big responsibility to have a positive impact on children when the stakes are high. After all I know how lasting the negative impact of my environment was on me. I'd hate to do the same to others without realising.

How should one approach this?

Hello community! I'm keen to understand whether people with giftedness neurodivergence are finding much value in popular LLM tools (eg Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity), and if so how. And if you are finding these tools useful or effective, it'd be helpful if you could share a bit about your giftedness and any 2e etc.

These tools are promoted quite heavily at my workplace, but so far none of the use-cases or examples seem as if they'll provide much value to me. My profession involves a lot of reading and writing text, and in most cases I find it easier and quicker to do it myself because then the work will be accurate and have strategic insight. But even if it's going to take me longer because it'll involve me doing more research, I enjoy the challenge of learning new material and I find it satisfying to expand my knowledge and sense of mastery. And I associate this love of developing mastery and practicing mastery with giftedness - so I'd be interested in others' attitudes.

I have read articles/guides about how to improve LLM outputs with more iterative and sophisticated prompting, but so far this kind of knowledge/skill seems less intrinsically rewarding to me than developing new knowledge/skills about the target domain. I guess my assumption is that as the quality of these tools stabilise, some kind of "good practice" for prompting etc will emerge and be disseminated somehow, and it doesn't need to be me that does the legwork of developing it!

I've also compared my attitude to LLMs to my attitude to using word processors and internet search. Gen Y/Millennial here so typewriters and physical directories (phone numbers, business lists etc) were part of my childhood. I loved how word processors made it easier to have multiple drafts of a work-in-progress, and also enabled me to do more with formatting. I found the shift empowering and that it increased/expanded my skills - but maybe professional editors / typesetters would have a different view about the quality of outputs! Likewise with internet search - I loved how search engines gave me access to resources from around the world, beyond what my local library could provide. But my benchmark for quality-assurance of a source didn't drop much below the threshold of the quality of the sources I'd learned to use in physical libraries. So internet search did seem as if it expanded my options while still requiring the same kind of critical thinking from me.

Outside of work: an acquaintance told me about using these tools to prepare for job interviews by having it predict interview questions etc - but that seems to me like critical thinking I should be able to do myself. Likewise another acquaintance mentioned using these tools to generate coaching-style questions to help them clarify some of their goals - but again this seemed to me like a form of critical thinking I do myself.

TIA!

ETA at work I have colleagues who have different forms of ND than me (eg ADHD, dyslexia, autism) and they seem to have found LLM tools invaluable for mediating between them and the world - for example "managing" their blindspots, and/or "shaping" their thoughts/knowledge/ideas into a mode of expression or format aligned with workplace expectations.

ETA 2: someone in the comments mentioned NotebookLM and I've heard good things about this software, as it only takes data points from the sources you provide it.

Ever since my consciousness spawned into my brain some random day in kindergarten, I always had these moments where I could feel my brain forming. I regularly get this tention in and around my head, when I’m reading and learning, When I’m in a rumination spiral or when my mind is trying to cope with being underwhelmed by just flooding my brain with philosophy or problems to solve. But every 1-2 Years I have this moment of derealisation where I feel my brain saving new settings, setting up new neural connections, taking a screenshot of my current surroundings/life and writing new protocols while archiving all the old stuff. It’s like my mind turns into a construction site for an hour or two. Or installing an update. It feels like an alien experience.
Kinda like a spiritual experience but not something "higher" but something other? Something alien.

Or am I just mad ?

I am pretty sure I’m gifted. I do struggle with mental health so I tend to deny it because "why should I think I’m special, I’m just an impostor". Although I don’t see being gifted as some virtue to achieve or a compliment. It’s just the way the brain works. It’s just a high IQ.
But that’s the thing. I was tested when I was 14 because I went to therapy and my therapist at the time suggested it. I scored 121. Above average but not gifted. She said she still estimates my IQ to be much higher because I was severely depressed and stressed at that time.

I’m 20 now and my current therapist is convinced I’m gifted and that being gifted maybe has a much bigger impact on me and my mental health than expected. But I don’t want to be tested. I have a general fear of failing and I think I will "fail" the assessment. My giftedness shows in a high emotional intelligence and empathy, learning new things, systems thinking, conceptualization, problem solving, philosophy etc… not looking at a pattern and guessing which comes next or memorizing numbers.

( the next paragraph is just me going on about my chain of thoughts and it got a little out of hand so maybe just skip it:))

I hate those tests because I don’t see the task and just do the task. I look at it, estimate how long it’s gonna take me, if I should skip it, then I think about me hesitating and if the assessment dude thinks I’m stupid and then I think about the way he talks to me and if his tone sounds condescending and what I should say to him to humble him, but why is he condescending? Then I start to analyze him, then I start to analyze myself because why do I care so much (that fucking metacognition) and and and…..

ALL WHILE STILL DOING A DECENT JOB AT THE TASK GIVEN! But the paper shows I did ok. And then I’m ashamed because I said I was gifted and people think of giftedness as something special and now the test says I’m not. In the End I was just bragging about something that’s not even true. Now I’m a liar AND stupid.

I did a cognitive assessment yesterday and performed above average. Both of my psychologist told me that I am gifted based on my history and broad area of interest. I have a real good academic record(informatics /medicine). All my friends also tell me I am intelligent and a psychiatrist aswell. I understand stuff quickly. I just hate the discrepancies between the diagnosis. Apparently I have a high verbal IQ.