in my experience, being evil is not limited to 'normies'. It is sadly all too common that regardless of IQ, people often fear or hate both those who are different; as well as things they don't understand.

Unfortunately audio is just too poor quality to go on

I completely relate and appreciate all the work and information in this series of videos. Thank you.

I would say that it is not depend on us to show others how you want to be treated. The golden principle states that everyone generally wishes to be treated the same. Kindly. Also, especially at this point in life, I'm confident in my Superior abilities. I don't apologize for them. I don't make them the center of any conversations really, but they are there and I use them. I know someone questions me, I straight up say that I have a gift for this and I'm going to use it. That I'm not asking anyone to believe me, but I will indeed use what I am able to do to benefit myself long-term and therefore benefit everyone, as the individual is where everything starts. My complete and utter lack of desire for external validation is something insecure people.. so most people... hate. They despise it. They want to destroy it and tear it down. Of course, they are incapable of doing that with someone like me. But damn if they don't try. Regardless of how someone appears to think of themselves, we should always treat her according to the golden principle.

To have such great information and then such bad sound quality. And the Tapper, the Tapper, the Tapper, the Tapper.

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Thank you very much!

Its been many years since my childhood and its sequence of my own intellectual expression was both liberating and later a confining and shaming experience. From 2 - 9 yrs of age I enjoyed a monastic life as a child of the welfare system living in a Catholic Convent. My interests of theology, piano linguistics (latin) and art were encouraged. I played the piano while other children watched play school (child tv show in Australia). I participated in many musicals and sang. I listened to the BBC World New on the radio every evening and spoke inquisitively to the Head Nun about the morality of the Vietnam war.A little after 9yrs of age I was fostered out to a family who did not reflect me in anyway, both racially and humanly. My intelligence was ridiculed, belittled and shunned. My only reprieve was my beloved school, teachers and fellow students. I use to borrow books on philosophy, science and classical literature and hide them under my pillow to read at night. I endured this indifference for 7 years. It did leave an indelible mark on my psyche but it taught me many things as well, especially about human fear of difference. I have had many careers, almost as many letters in the alphabet starting with Archaeologist, journalism, social advocate, politics, policy writer, and finally mental health clinician. The journey is still ongoing but in my middle age, there is greater peace and self acceptance. Thank you for your work.

@caljdominguemft9528

8 жыл бұрын

Hi CharKi - Thank you for taking the time to watch my videos and for sharing your story with me. Your statement about many people being afraid of difference resonates strongly with me as well. Your career journey s not at all unusual for a Gifted person with many interests - what I call "multi-potentialed". I have very successfully worked as a computer programmer, computer support engineer, minister, massage therapist, psychotherapist, and classical singer; so I can definitely relate also to your professional progression. It sounds like you have overcome the wounds of your childhood and integrated the various aspects of your identity in a very powerful and positive way. Congratulations on that; it can be a challenge and a life journey. Thank you again for watching my videos and for reaching out. Best wishes to you. Warm regards, Cal

@sharkbaitblu

8 жыл бұрын

+Cal J Domingue, MFT Thank you Cal for your reply post. It feels great to know one is not too much of an anomaly amongst fellow humans after all. As you would have felt at some time in your life experience's somewhat different from the norm. Anyway I have introduced your work and that of Dabrowski to my other family member who like me has worked through many aspects of what is called positive disintergration. She has felt strong in her development but it has isolated her immensely from our normative and unfortunately dysfunctional families. Being both from an Aboriginal background we were torn by the social constructs of responses equated with an oppressive background but we both sought to do things that are not grounded in this thinking. In fact we both try to be exemplary in our behaviours and challenge our families in their beliefs they have no other choice but to be 'victims'. We both enjoy a deep and loving relationship and bringing her to the existence of this theory and your work will give us both a firmer ground to work from into the future. Peace brother. Charki

Thank you so much. I am gifted and dyslexic.

Thank you!

@CalTherapy1

8 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Erin! Hope you found this useful.

Thank you for taking the time to provide these videos. It can be incredibly hard to find information on "gifted adults", which only emphasizes the dismissal that many may identify with. Is there any way for young adults who have been struggling their entire lives to find support, to find it in adulthood? How do you start this journey if you lack the funds to do so? I think my personal experience is so cross-hatched with complex variables that I can't just offer up a brief description to be reviewed right away. I try my best to figure all of this out myself, but that's really not enough when you also want a community. I've never met anyone who didn't think I was weird, once they got to know me, for how introverted and/or inquisitive I was. I don't really care about being social, but I think I might if I found people like myself. Also, how do you measure the IQ of someone who has ADHD mixed type (and dysthymia, but that's probably not a factor)? I enjoy taking the online ones, for fun, but would hardly count them as any valid representation. I have a lot of interests, but honestly, I'm drawn to anything with theory, complexities or abstracts that require problem-solving. This has given me a lot of trouble in college, which is where I'm at now. I've thought about entering into a new school called "Minerva" because it seemed to have more of a mentor approach, but they're very new and I find it difficult to find information on their teaching structure. I'm wondering since you live in San Francisco California, which is where the first year of the school takes place, if you've heard anything about the school? I really struggle with sequential learning, and would much rather learn through creative problem-solving and visual-spatial techniques. I'm from Texas though, and I've never seen a teacher use that approach, so I wonder if teachers in any other state use it, or if I'm better off continuing to teach myself? Do you know of any schools like that? Perhaps this gets discussed in your community; it's very hard to find information on, even more so if you've never been a part of a school system that had programs like "gifted" but instead A.P. which is what I did but they were more directed towards achievers, so my curiosity wasn't ever welcomed. It can be a fairly hopeless feeling, to prove your worth when really you just want to learn without harsh conditions of what that process is supposed to look like, how long you should be allowed to learn, or how marginalized your creativity has to be. It's frustrating because I have so many ideas, I just want a mentor to discuss them with so I can push myself. I don't care about status, money, grades, or making my paper look like everyone else's and this just makes my teachers hostile, but when I do conform and get straight A's it sends me into depression. I don't know what to do with that, and I don't know where to find resources that could help me deal with that either.

@muhamedbright4183

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Callie, hit me up medbright14@gmail.com and let's get talking. Cheers

@greenhoodie

3 жыл бұрын

Hope things are going alright for you Callie. It's a journey as they say, sadly we can't use our 'rage to master' in our own life so early on, more so in hindsight after more time passes. You will get there.