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Holiday Season Confessions From A Tango Dancing Geek Psychotherapist
For the past 6 years, I have spent the holidays alone.* Thanksgiving. Christmas. Hanukkah. Halloween. All of it. Solitude City. Introvert Overkill. I am guessing you are surprised. Here I am. Popular blogger to the gifted. Geek therapist extraordinaire. Surely, there are people clamoring to invite me to their celebrations. Family? Children? Inlaws? Outlaws? Boyfriend?…
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Finding Meaningful Friendships When You Are (Annoyingly) Perceptive And (Excruciatingly) Sensitive
How do you find deeply satisfying friendships when you are an excruciatingly sensitive, annoyingly perceptive, unendingly persnickety, frighteningly intense, multi-dimensionally intelligent, divergently thinking, quirkily funny, unrealistically idealistic, gently demanding, ravenously researching, mysteriously intuitive human being? (otherwise known as rainforest-minded) No wonder friends are hard to find. Right? But, face it honey. This is a perfect…
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Gifted And Lonely In Belgium
Just yesterday, 26 people in Bangladesh and 9 in Qatar were reading my blog. 10 in South Africa, 12 in Turkey, 1 in Kenya, and 6 in Sudan, among many others, around the world. We are not alone, my dearest rainforest-minded darlings. We are not alone. Of course, you may still feel lonely. Like Elien,…
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Gifted In Spain — How Are Rainforest Minds Similar And Different Across Cultures? #2
Meet Manuel. He is 29. Living in Spain. “… I have always struggled with authority, peers, and almost everything because I think out of the box. I am told constantly that I am too intense and too focused in my interests, which I have a wide range of them, which is quite frustrating for me…
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The Many Faces Of Giftedness — Beyond Sheldon And Sherlock
Pardon me while I rant. I just saw a preview on TV for a show that is highlighting “elite gifted athletes” and showcasing their particularly astonishing abilities. Oh boy. Then, I thought, how do we honor intellectually gifted folks on TV? We don’t. Or we think we do because we watch people on Jeopardy competitions…
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“My Brain Is Bursting At The Seams” — The World Of The Gifted Adult
“I want to do everything at once and no one wants me to. They think I can’t focus. They want me to do one thing and do it for them the way they want it done..and it is so hard to climb the ladder unless you ‘participate properly’… just keep getting knocked down again and…
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Relationships For Creative, Sensitive, Intuitive, Analytical Overthinkers — Where Do You Start?
You think a lot. Some would say that you overthink. You feel deeply. Some would say that you over-feel. You love learning. Some would say that you over-research and over-read. You have very high standards and expectations. Some would say that you over-analyze. You are concerned about the future of the planet. Some would say…
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Realizing That You Are Gifted — Will It Make a Difference?
Realizing that you are gifted. That you are of the rainforest-minded clan. Explains a lot. It explains why you are so darned sensitive. So darned empathetic. You see, your feelings and perceptions are as vast as your intellect. You are not only thinking, analyzing, and synthesizing on many levels at once and pretty much all…
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