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Book Lovers? Your Time Has Arrived.
“The child I once was read constantly and hardly spoke, because she was ambivalent about the merits of communication, about the risks of being mocked or punished or exposed. The idea of being understood and encouraged, of recognizing herself in another, of affirmation, had hardly occurred to her and neither had the idea that she…
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Time To Embrace Your Geekly Bookwormish Not-Normal Self
You just want to be normal. But do you really? Sure, you have trouble in relationships. Your intensity is misinterpreted as arrogance or criticism or drama. Your emotions overwhelm you and the people you love. Your only friend is really tired of hearing your perturbations about string theory. You’re frustrated by what you experience as mediocrity or…
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Gifted Shmifted
Time to address the elephant. The one in the room. You know what I’m talkin’ about. I’m starting to hyperventilate. I really don’t want to do this. But it was going to come up sooner or later. OK. Sigh. Just do it. You may identify with the label geek, nerd, bookworm, or brainiac. If you’re following…
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Brainiacs, Bookworms and Geeks
Are you passionate about learning, reading and research and perplexed, perturbed and perspiring about schooling? School can be challenging for someone with a rainforest mind. Maybe this describes you: • In second grade, you completed the entire workbook in one night and your teacher got mad at you for working ahead. • In fourth grade, you…