Accurate Views of Ourselves are Crucial to Reduce the Anxiety Many Feel

We're NOT perfect even if we were told we were "gifted."

We're NOT idiots even if others didn't recognize our intelligence or talent.

Conjecture

• Gifted people fall all over various spectrums --- BUT there are definitely a Group that Struggled in School and a Group that Did GREAT in School.
• I think there is often the "IDEA" that the "gifted" kids that did GREAT in school are STRAIGHT "GIFTED" and NOT 2e.
  • My observation is that is just not the case.

 

• Further, more and more Educators of Gifted Students are recognizing that these kids do often have EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING DIFFERENCES.
  • The idea that this is JUST ATTRIBUTABLE to NOT having to STUDY ----
    • I think is NOT REALITY.
  • Further --- If you can pull it off --- you are probably MASKING in one or more ways.
  • Because we have some often "SELF-DEFEATING IDEAS" about "EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING" and that there is "NO EXCUSE" for DIFFERENCES.
    • Whenever I hear "NO EXCUSE" --- I know I'm dealing with someone who is wanting to argue with REALITY.
    • I don't think you have to "AGREE" with any behavior --- BUT the BOTTOM LINE is there are going to be REASONS for it ---
      • AND those reasons aren't always what we "THINK."

 

• More and more there are links between "giftedness," neuro-developmental differences and disorders, psychiatric disorders AND SENSORY PROCESSING DIFFERENCES.

 

• ADHD and AUTISM are quite BLURRED.

 

• There is an interesting study that posits that AUTISM is not a reduced or hypo development of the PRE-FRONTAL CORTEX  --- it's a HYPER DEVELOPMENT of the PRE-FRONTAL CORTEX.  

Resilience
Artist Development & Production

My observation is that there are a lot of "gifted" people in the LEGAL PROFESSION.

BUT a lot of lawyers found that the practice of law in some cases could be more like a Scott Turow novel than the learned profession they thought they were going into.

• In any case, you were often confronted with a fair number of aggressive, smart people concerned with "JUSTICE" that got in over their heads.
• At some point --- YOU may have become one of those people.

• A lot of people have strong feelings about "JUSTICE" ---- people who went into LAW often have very strong feelings about "JUSTICE." 
  

Adulting with Exceptionalities in the Criminal Justice System

ATTORNEY WELL BEING has become a HOT TOPIC in the past few years.

• There are a lot reasons for that that operate on multiple levels.
• BUT one of the reasons I think is that there are a fair number of "GIFTED" people with EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING DIFFERENCES in a SYSTEM that is NOT prepared to ACCEPT them. 
  

See Also:  Frontiers of Neuroscience (2020)

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often exhibit abnormal processing of sensory inputs from multiple modalities and higher-order cognitive/behavioral response to those inputs.

Especially in Law & Medicine, I think you sometimes see "gifted people" who are sometimes quite BLURRED aspects of ADHD and Autism.