Other points:

  • it’s not mutually exclusive with any other neurodivergence, in which case they’re “twice exceptional”;
  • In an environment with unprepared people and professionals, they may be wrongly diagnosed as having some other neurodivergence.
  • It’s not just a high IQ score;
  • Gifted kids can be problem students and have low grades;
  • Homework feels like torture (this is true to any child, tho);
  • They’re very likely to question authorities and point out perceived hypocrisy (emphasis here on perceived, because pointing something and being right are different things);
  • As kids, they may have weird quirks for executing tasks, such as wanting to hold pencils the “wrong” way, or wanting to press against a wall to do homework;

If you’re Brazilian or can understand Brazilian Portuguese, this is the podcast I listened to - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apnuIIePeeA

Aos brasileiros que acabarem encontrando esse post, o podcast que assisti é o que linkei acima

  • @[email protected]English
    -16•1 month ago

    The “rest of my rant” is lived experience and factually relevant, friend. You can either recognize that reality or keep lying to yourself (and subsequently perpetuate that shit with inaction). You choose.

    “Gifted” is not “talented”, “skilled”, etc. It inherently implies a “gift” by some pre-birth entity, and largely assumed to be whatever god is acceptable in the location of the phrase’s utterance. Don’t play dumb. It’s beneath you.

    edit: Your personal lack of etymological roots is no proof. Read a fuckin’ book, friends. How typical.

    • I Cast FistOPEnglish
      18•1 month ago

      My dude, at no point I explicitly or implicitly tried to equate being skilled with being gifted or talented, nor that being gifted has anything to do with religion or god. I didn’t choose the term that the english language uses for this.

      I won’t bother with you anymore because it’s clear you don’t want to talk in good faith, at least not here

      • Nate CoxEnglish
        13•1 month ago

        Careful now, “good faith” is religiously charged and implies that God is the source of all good intent, you’re gonna set this person off with that.

        (/s hopefully obviously)

    • @Blue_MorphoEnglish
      17•1 month ago

      I’m hardcore atheist and have never thought of Gifted as having any religious connotation. A genetic gift doesn’t imply a creator. Gift means you received something with the connotation that it was unearned.