Is Giftedness A Bad Word?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2024
- Why are people afraid to talk about giftedness?
You enter a forest. Who's forest? Why are you here? As you walk through the narrow paths and try not to stumble over the vines, you realize there's something eerily familiar about this place. You've been here before. Many times. And then it hits you. The realization. You're inside your own mindscape. This is how it looks inside your own head.
But you've never seen it like this before. Never been a simple wanderer passing through, trying to find the way. In the past, you were always the individual thoughts, the trees, always a different one, never more than a few at a time. You recognize many of these trees.
Some trees are your worries and concerns and fears. Some are frustrations and things that upset you. Some are shame, and regret. Things you wish had gone differently. Here's both the past and the future, at least, what you think could, or might happen. But looking at this forest, you are hit by a wave of perspective. You are all of these things, not any individual thought, but all thoughts, at the same time. You're both joys and sorrows, dreams and fears. All those inner conflicts were just you all along, thinking, with yourself.
My name is Erik Thor, and I'm a Jungian analyst specializing in personality psychology and positive psychology. I created this channel to do storytelling about personality psychology and personal growth.
I like to put giftedness this way: imagine you are a dog that really looks like a fish, but living in a fish world. Whatever intentions of being a fish you might have, you just cannot, and on the other hand, others just regard you as a broken fish, which interferes directly on how you perceive yourself, reinforcing your sense of detachment.
I appreciate you speaking up on this topic Erik. I hope many more do in the future as well.
Great words 🙏🏻
_In France, it's also called : high intellectual potential & multi potential, or even zebras (cause they are all uniques)
Let's call it neurodivergence, if that can keep people from laughing, from saying that it's a label, or that it's bullshit.
(But no, I will still fight for it ! cause people don't know what really is)
_Thank you, it's true we can have struggles, issues, challenges : hypersensitivity sensorial & emotional, nervous fatigue, the massive difference of functioning/preferences/interests with others, loneliness... many things, even traumas due to the difference with others.
Sometimes, It's a suffering to have so much ideas, wanting to do so much things, and not always having the energy.
🤗❤️👍🌞have a wonderful week.
you too cindy!
Great information about disgust
Susan Fiske has great research on the topic, 'Social groups that elicit disgust are differentially is processed in mPFC' is the research paper title
When I have to explain Giftesness to a friend I like to explain it as a neurodivergence that encompasses a whole set of differences in cognitive functions. And that referring to it as a “gift” is like reducing ADHD to hyperfocusing. If you only talked about hyperfocusing everyone would want to be ADHD because “ohh I would be able to focus more on the things I like and my studies” when in reality the ADHD experience is completely different. I don’t like to think as neurodivergences as just disabilities or as gifts, both are unhealthy points of view that stigmatizes the conditions. But instead acknowledging them as a divergence or difference is a much healthier way to refer to it ❤️❤️
Wondeful video, intelligence is something that I am striving to accept and own again. On disgust, I had the privilege of seeing John Powell from the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley. One of the strongest takeaways for me was Susan Fiske's research he cited related to othering, and it has been shown that our brains see groups we 'other' as less than human, and see increased activity in the areas associated with disgust.
Don't the people in the top 5% notice that they are outnumbered by the people in the bottom 85%?
Telling people that planned obsolescence is happening and obvious in automobiles is not appreciated. So we will all be stuck on a wrecked planet.
Forest for thought, are you mixing intelligence with education?