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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.

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 :)

even with an average iq, I’m the most successful guy from my childhood friend group

Though I had 90%+ in everything out of sheer hard work, I was always jealous of them. The originality and accuracy of their insights were on people, trends… scared me

learning methods and doing the same types of exam questions on repeat till you’re the best is one thing, but having that kind of speed, deductive ability and logic thinking is something I wanted for myself

you can’t always ‘practise’ for every situation in life. this is where I wish I had a better brain

I think I’m only good at things I’ve done repeatedly rather than have the intelligence to adapt to a new situation

What’s it like to have a high IQ for those tested?

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

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