Learning I was gifted was one of the most defining experiences of my life 🤗 It opened up a whole new perspective of myself and has allowed me to exist with even greater authenticity than I already had.
Interesting question and interesting answers ... one of the first things we learnt about Adam (in the Book of Genesis) is that his job was to name the animals ... and in Genesis 1 we can see God 'labelling' everything He made ... naming things accurately and honestly leads to clarity of thought and precise action ...
That Part 2 about the Needs of the Gifted in the workplace: NASA was the opposite of all those needs. It was the place I had always been led to believe would be the collective of the most gifted people in our country, but the Engineering (and Aviation) culture was the most anti- of all those things. Crushingly so. Decades of preparation, and passion, wasted. Another area that is devastatingly abusive is Social Services, Victims Services, and Medical Care: when we need help and support the most, is when we are shamed, abused, neglected, and ignored the most. So if we can't make it in the workplace, and we can't get support as Disabled, either, yet there's no one to help us get established as financially independent, we're doomed. Everyone says "once you know, then you'll find your tribe." Except Gifteds don't, we don't find each other in ways that are actually helpful.
In my lived experience, being gifted is a lot like bei g bisexual -- if I'm in a "straight-passing" relationship, or I'm not living fully into my "gifted" differences and living a "normie-passing" life, the differences become invisible. Cue self-forgetting sequence...
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Learning I was gifted was one of the most defining experiences of my life 🤗 It opened up a whole new perspective of myself and has allowed me to exist with even greater authenticity than I already had.
Interesting question and interesting answers ... one of the first things we learnt about Adam (in the Book of Genesis) is that his job was to name the animals ... and in Genesis 1 we can see God 'labelling' everything He made ... naming things accurately and honestly leads to clarity of thought and precise action ...
That Part 2 about the Needs of the Gifted in the workplace: NASA was the opposite of all those needs. It was the place I had always been led to believe would be the collective of the most gifted people in our country, but the Engineering (and Aviation) culture was the most anti- of all those things. Crushingly so. Decades of preparation, and passion, wasted. Another area that is devastatingly abusive is Social Services, Victims Services, and Medical Care: when we need help and support the most, is when we are shamed, abused, neglected, and ignored the most. So if we can't make it in the workplace, and we can't get support as Disabled, either, yet there's no one to help us get established as financially independent, we're doomed. Everyone says "once you know, then you'll find your tribe." Except Gifteds don't, we don't find each other in ways that are actually helpful.
In my lived experience, being gifted is a lot like bei g bisexual -- if I'm in a "straight-passing" relationship, or I'm not living fully into my "gifted" differences and living a "normie-passing" life, the differences become invisible. Cue self-forgetting sequence...