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2e or not 2e? That is the question

Damojo

Has anyone got a 2e ("twice exceptional") diagnosis? That's a combination of neurodivergence and giftedness. If so, is giftedness the part of your diagnosis that your are most likely or least likely to admit to in public? (Reply, "I like bumble bees," if you are not going to admit to it.) How do you think it has impacted your life?

If you don't relate to giftedness, what is your take on it?

Here's a Venn diagram to get your creative juices flowing.

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  • I'm finding it difficult to envisage when, how and why a clinician would diagnose 'giftedness'. They tend to diagnose problems or conditions that are conventionally interpreted as problematic (autism, ADHD, bipolar, dyspraxia etc.). I would have thought that giftedness would not be a problem and that it would be obvious to a layman and not need a clinician to point it out.

  • in reply to Martin
    Martin said:
    I would have thought that giftedness would not be a problem

    Mattia Maurée of AuDHD Flourishing did a podcast on the combination of AuDHD+2e and described how their "gifted" brain brings an extra intensity to the AuDHD experience that can be problematic. There was an expectation that they'd be a "high achiever", and when that didn't quite work out, they felt like a disappointment.

  • in reply to Damojo

    Is that the result of having a gifted brain, or the result of having been given a label of 'giftedness'?

    It is interesting that neither Charles Darwin nor Albert Einstein would have been labelled as gifted in their schooldays. Personally, I think that the late developers have added far more to the sum of human knowledge than the precocious.

  • in reply to Damojo

    You make strawman extrapolations.

  • in reply to Damojo

    A poster cannot control the rabbit holes that other people's replies take a thread down. It is a conversation after all.

    I suspect that, like most things, the interplay of autism and intelligence has positive and negative aspects.

    On a personal level my high levels of autism-related anxiety meant that I could never envisage a lecturing post. Giving the occasional seminar or conference presentation would leave me incapable of anything for days afterwards. Therefore, having a regular lecturing schedule would have been impossible. This limited me to purely research roles.

    On the positive side, my hyperfixation, eye for detail and an ability to solve problems from unusual directions (thinking out of the box), which I largely ascribe to my autism, gave me many advantages in successfully pursuing research projects.

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  • in reply to Damojo

    A poster cannot control the rabbit holes that other people's replies take a thread down. It is a conversation after all.

    I suspect that, like most things, the interplay of autism and intelligence has positive and negative aspects.

    On a personal level my high levels of autism-related anxiety meant that I could never envisage a lecturing post. Giving the occasional seminar or conference presentation would leave me incapable of anything for days afterwards. Therefore, having a regular lecturing schedule would have been impossible. This limited me to purely research roles.

    On the positive side, my hyperfixation, eye for detail and an ability to solve problems from unusual directions (thinking out of the box), which I largely ascribe to my autism, gave me many advantages in successfully pursuing research projects.

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