Published on 12, July, 2020
If so, what makes you gifted?
Gifted and cursed.
I know I have an unusually high I.Q. and I know that has enabled me to earn money that most people would regard as amazing.
But I am miserable and alone.
Some gift.
I have a gift of singing
I wish I was. I mean, I've been told I have a natural sense of pitch and rhythm and I can sort of easily find the key of a song before singing it, but it's not much.
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I have always been gifted,but only on the 25th od December
Dyslexia threw a curveball into my reading and spelling game too, but hey, on the flip side, IQ tests and academic stuff became my playground. Your son being labeled 'gifted and talented' is awesome! By the way, the whole IQ-from-the-mother thing cracked me up – blame or credit, it's all in good fun! As for me, I'm a walking contradiction too – either stumbling over words or acing a logical argument.
I imagine things, mostly to entertain myself, since I can't get any job where I would be able to use brain not muscle. I imagined my 'system' for imagining as well, and I improve it constantly. Atm its something like 3D Autocad, if there was such a thing
Well my son was classified 'Gifted and talented' at school and they say IQ comes from the mother, lol!!!
Ok, more seriously neurodivergence is a right mixed bag, huh? Either intellectual disability or super high IQ???
For me, oooohhh dyslexia made it so hard to learn to read or spell or later do phonetic transcription, but IQ pattern tests, logical argument, analytical dissection, endless academic distinctions (even though the spelling sucks) blown out of the water ... hmmm swinging from one end to the other with endless contradictions, isn't it? I don't seem to be "average" at anything. I either suck or am ace. No inbetween, lol.
I've grown to just accept it all and use the strengths to compensate for the weaknesses.
I like that. The world needs earthly Angels. I've met a few and they are life savers x
I've done OK on tests created and/or normed by a psychometrician.
The question was prompted by people on the gifted subreddit saying that gifted people are neurodivergent. Quite a few people in the high IQ FB groups have said that I'm gifted. I think most people could do OK on the tests I do OK on. Whether gifted or not I've got nowhere near fulfilling any potential I may have once had.
I have a good eye for detail, a retentive memory (for things that interest me), strong abilities in problem solving, I can write lucidly and I am a reasonably accomplished visual artist. Are these 'gifts', am I gifted? I don't know.
Well, my mum used to say I was an angel
I'm not sure if I'm gifted can't think of anything at the moment.
I would say that my creative abilities is a gift. What about you firemonkey? Do you consider yourself to be gifted?