I've seen gifted kids always ending up with trauma around formal learning and schooling bc of how their identity was connected to performance and proving your worth every single time. And bullying bc of the preferential treatment from teachers.
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Replying to @NeoSomaliana @GeniesLoki
Also, being gifted is really about sensitivity, and the contrast between having a high energy need and school being about domesticating that sensitivity, it ends up fragmenting the childhttps://www.sengifted.org/post/overexcitability-and-the-gifted …
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Replying to @NeoSomaliana @GeniesLoki
Please don't make blanket statements about 'giftedness is about sensitivity'. I was a 'gifted kid' my entire life and ended up with no 'trauma' around learning. Part of this was homeschooling, but I also was generally not...sensitive in that way. I was a bulldozer.
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Replying to @orthonormalist @GeniesLoki
It was in connection to Dabrowski's theory of what made gifted kids gifted. He says it's overexcitability which is "inborn intensities indicating a heightened ability to respond to stimuli"
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Replying to @NeoSomaliana @orthonormalist
That sounds interesting. Any recommended reading on it?
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My favorite non fiction work on the gifted was by Leta Hollingworth, on the “Speyer school” The coolest thing was the curriculum design “The evolution of common things” Like a collaboratively built and argued Wikipedia, lead by curiosity. Fiction: Ender’s Shadow/Ender’s Game
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I fell prey to the Ender's Game trap as a kid--though I never liked Ender's Shadow.
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Yeah I can't say I'd recommend Ender's Game as a *good* resource for gifted kids.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki @orthonormalist and
Like "and then I murdered my bully in order to teach people a lesson that they shouldn't bully me" isn't really a message I'm keen to encourage.
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Ender’s Game is *almost* as useful as an object of narcissism analysis as The Matrix- everyone just hated Ender because *they were jealous he was so much better than them*, and all his violence was *completely justified* by the narrative context.
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Yes, the modern challenge is to win without fighting, and then vacate the position before anyone knew what happened. I need to read more about Peter...
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