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#gifted

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César Pose

Many people believe that gifted people feel special and better than others.
I feel and have felt like a miserable piece of shit most of the time, I perceive life in this world as a cruel punishment, I find it very difficult to relate to people and I only have peace when I am alone and isolated from the world or when I meditate for long hours.
So no, I don't feel as great as people think. The only thing special is my existential depression.
:abe: :blep: :aaaa:

#gifted#giftedness#autism
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César Pose

@actuallyautistic
In a few days, I'll be 62, and I have an almost ritualistic custom every year when I complete another orbit around the sun. I consider "New Year's" to be the day one was born. The world began that day; that day was the "Big Bang," the origin of this universe that I am.
Taking stock of my current situation and circumstances, I consider my needs and my vision of life at this moment and I intend to live according to that configuration, which changes every decade, every year, every month, and every day.
This time, I thought it might be interesting to share some of that with the autistic people I come in contact with here, just to share the experience and hope it might be of some use to others. After all, the experiences others have shared online have helped me understand who I am.
#autism #autistic #actuallyautistic #gifted #bipolar #neurodivergent #autisticadult

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Sometimes, many times, I have felt like a kind of Gulliver in Lilliput. I know that talking about high intellectual abilities makes one be considered arrogant, but in reality it is not. There is a tendency to believe that people who have one deficiency, or several, are disabled or limited and need help.
But if you have a high IQ, if wherever you go you have been given dozens of tests and they all confirm that you are a brain monster, then it is assumed that you have no problem, that your intelligence is more than enough to live in this world. And it surely is so. But when one has other concomitant conditions, everything changes. That is double exceptionality, a genius who does not seem like it because he is autistic. And an autistic who doesn't look like it because he is very intelligent.
And do you know what it feels like on this side? Frustration and desire for isolation. It becomes difficult to relate to someone. And I don't need people to be especially intelligent, in fact many of my friends and loved ones have been almost illiterate.
For such a person, solitude and anonymity are more comfortable than a life of relationship.

#autism#autistic#actuallyautistic
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César Pose

Two things prevent you from understanding a person with double exceptionality (gifted + autism)...

1- One is that you can't believe how easy some things are for them, just those that are very difficult or almost impossible for you.

2- The other is that you can't believe how difficult some things are for them, just things that seem easy and normal to you.

They don't look gidted because they are autistic and they don't look autistic because they are gifted...
#2e #gifted #autistic #twiceexceptional #actuallyautistic #autism

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Stephen Elliott~Buckley

And they took that technology to remove all the #landmines in the country. And also use that technology to sell to the rest of the world. What would happen. And the students themselves created Wakanda practically. Grade 8 students. Not gifted kids. Literally a cross-section of the grade 8s coming into the school.

Makes you think #afrofuturism is merely an inevitability.

(And the nature of what educators think #gifted means, and what we didn't know about #neurospiciness then, and and and)

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