Gifted, creative and highly sensitive children | Heidi Hass Gable | TEDxLangleyED

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  @VeronicaKulchitskaya · 7 years ago

  God when she said "that childs sense of self has been compromised. There's anxiety and there's existential crises" the floodgates opened

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  @NataliaLopezV · 9 years ago

  Hugs to all the fellow gifted ex-children here, hope you are doing great.

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  @sOupira · 6 years ago

  I'm crying watching that because that's all I've ever wanted when I was a kid. And yes I "swallowed" a lot of myself to fit in.

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  @benfrank8649 · 8 years ago

  I tested as gifted as child. I was indeed the class clown. Rather than being in a gifted program, I was in a behavioral classroom, for problem kids basically. I barely graduated high school, but now I’m in a neuropsychology doctorate program. Finally, I enjoy school.

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  @yodar93 · 10 years ago

  I don't know that I'm gifted, but I know that I'm intelligent. School was never enough for me. I disliked the dynamic and the monotony. The huge groups of people making it impossible to focus. Even now it's difficult in college. But there is no other dynamic. And it is truly unfortunate.

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  @lidu6363 · 9 years ago

  „I am gifted but I would rather apologize for it than brag about it. Why is that?“<br><br>Instant like. Why does our society give us the feeling that we should be average and conventional?

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  @fantasylovemagic · 4 years ago (edited)

  Got homeschooled by our gifted mom. She then found structure for neuroatypical kids where we were understood and supported by gifted and Asperger teachers. Thank you mom ♥️

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  @muttinking7276 · 10 years ago

  When i passed my schools &quot;gifted&quot; test everyone expected more from me and it sucks

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  @N.eteriko · 7 years ago (edited)

  It&apos;s very easy to spot a gifted child because there&apos;s absolutely nothing ordinary about them. In a crowd of millions, they&apos;d always stand out like a sore thumb. The way they create, the way they take in information, the way they interact with their environment and family members, and their ability to do things at a level that are far far beyond their years. They are highly sensitive, deeply curious, extremely intense, emotionally intelligence individuals that notice things that most others are oblivious to, and they are ALWAYS misunderstood by the vast majority, and are mostly deemed to be an anaomoly for the most part. (however they also tend to be the game changers and artistic geniuses that propel the world forward). They&apos;re extraordinary prolific at their chosen pursuit and are often multi talented (hence the over activity and hyper creativity that they have to manage on a daily basis) they are OBSESSIVE and insanely driven at perfecting whatever task is at hand, and they&apos;re easily overwhelmed by people, external stimuli, and need an awful lot of time and space alone to ponder, reflect, re-gather their energies and make sense of the world around them, and manage the mammoth and EXTREMELY overly active world inside of them. Being a gifted child has been an endless struggle for me (especially regarding relationships with other people which are especially tough because most people are always operating at a levels of consciousness and understanding that is so narrow and colourless that it feels like I&apos;m drawing blood from myself just to be able to communicate with them) but it comes with advantages that I would never ever trade, regardless of the difficulties and pain that is endured. I could go on and on with this topic but the gifted child is a particularly special kind of individual that is just far too complex (in terms of their needs and the ways they draw meaning from life) to sum up in a paragraph, let alone several books!

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  @jillianfrost4570 · 10 years ago

  I am a gifted student in 5th grade and it makes me happier to know that I am not the only who is embarrassed by it

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  @anthonymartinez9363 · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybmgVSdsMu8&amp;t=400">6:40</a> Dang I wouldn’t have expected that the crowd at a Ted talk be so rude to the speaker, someone is texting, the girls are talking, the guy is looking at people screen.

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  @moderngrandma · 11 years ago

  We must also attract GIFTED TEACHERS and allow them to mentor gifted students. When I was teaching, students would self-select to be (or not to be) in my classes which promoted excactly what you describe. As goes our political climate, so goes our educational one...thanks for having the courage to share your journey and your story.

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