The Gifted and Talented Quarter-Life Crisis: When Your Potential Feels Like a Curse
I thought my IQ test results signalled I should be able to cure cancer and achieve world peace by the time I was 35. After all, that’s what the adults around me seemed to expect when I was little. You too?
“I Tried to Get Help, and It Didn’t Help”: Why Gifted People Struggle to Find the Right Therapy or Coaching
gifted and talented individuals are frequently misunderstood, and their struggles minimized or even mocked, when they try to seek help for the ordinary OR the extra things we struggle with in life.
Gifted Women and the Beauty Trap: Seeing Through It, and Still Getting Caught
Gifted, talented and creative women aren’t sure they belong in a lot of places, not insignificantly to the world of beauty or lack thereof.
The Gifted Man: Brilliant, Intense, and Often Misunderstood
Exceptional men have some of the same struggles as gifted and talented women, and a few of their own.
The Gifted, Female, and Forty-Something: Midlife Hits Different When You’ve Been Weird All Along
Whose midlife reckoning is it anyway? We never fit in, in the first place.
Too Smart to Be Normal, Too Funny to Be Understood: The Gifted Woman’s Sense of Humor
Go ahead and laugh. I probably did. Whether others did, well, that depends on how closely their minds track with what ours can do.
I Want You to Open Your Gifts!
We often grow up with an ambivalent relationship to gifts that make us stand out, give us interesting social feedback, and leave us with a distorted understanding of who we should expect ourselves to be.
The Quiet One: Why Gifted Women Often Struggle in Friendships
At many stages and phases of life, gifted women struggle with fitting in to “easy” networks of other women whether at work, among mothers, or even connecting through hobbies.