Children who are consider gifted, quite often lead average and sometimes diminished lives becuase of the expectation placed on them. Expecting ASD folk to be "gifted" is soemthign I would push back on, simply becuase it places unrealistic exceptions on an already
I do understand when people want to champion talent. If you go it why not flaunt it? But not everyone wants to flaunt it, it might be a personal thing to them.
I think the fuzzy profile, has wrongly been modelled out as mere statistical error. but this is really a problem of testing methodology and what we happen to consider important as a society.
I've always been very hesitant to use the term 'gifted',but others have
used it about me. I can't say I have any great/outstanding skills or
talents.I have definite comparative strengths and weaknesses. For the
most part the psychiatric profession has been hypercritical towards me
because I didn't live up to the expected,indeed demanded, good at x so
also good at y. You can add 'bullying related trauma' to that
which,apart from one abortive attempt early on, has made me totally
avoidant re pursuing further education.
I used to be a lot more
creative when younger than I am now. I'd say that's true for most
people, including famous artistic people. Whether creative/gifted or not
I've certainly failed to live up to any potential I may have had.
One
of the main things that tipped me over into having an SMI was the 18
months of severe anxiety trying to balance not wanting to let down my
parents down vs being acutely aware that I was far from able to cope
with the non academic side of college/uni life.
I'd say that
around 80% of my FB friends are from the high IQ communities there.
They've been far less inclined to reject me as a person. Indeed it's my
own gossamer thin self confidence/esteem/worth that has me thinking I'm
not good enough, not any such words from any of them.
Over the last few years I've done quite well on psychometrician created and/or normed tests.
If that helps you and you feel apart of something nothing wrong with that.
I have sometimes been called smart, but I really don;t like it, I rather focus on my own goals than have others put me up on a pedestal. I have also fallen shorts, so it is really not hard to convince some of one or the other.
Genius nearly always is about timing and creativity. Of course capacity is important but without he former and the inclination then that isn't genius. Genius isn't a number.
However there is no reason to be a genius, there are only a handful per decade, who figure soemthign out truly new.
I'm much more competitive against myself, wanting to do better than my previous score regardless as to whether that of someone else is better than mine. Non proctored, high range tests are more than a little controversial. Nowadays I do my best to just mention scores where a psychometrician has created and/or normed such a test.
I am learning disabled and only really was ever "gifted" in my ability to read after the 4th grade, when I had a teacher that I now know identifies as neurodivergent (I don't know if they mean they have ADHD or autism though) help me learn to read properly. Up until then I struggled to read and write, and was grade levels behind my peers. I guess the only other thing that people consider me "gifted" in is my ability to memorize facts about different things, especially scientific subjects.
The main way I use the adjective "gifted" is to refer to high intelligence. That's the way the word is used in the psychology literature I've read. So yes, I am gifted. I was in a gifted program in elementary school, high score on formally administered IQ tests, university degree in a difficult major despite being learning disabled. Basically my whole life I've been able to do well at anything that interested me if it was based on cognitive ability.
I know that some people use the word "gifted" to refer to individual talent but I don't really use it that way. I'd just say a person is talented in some area or has a talent.
I think I'd be happier with it being to do with 'high intelligence'(130+ IQ) if there was more than just 'one throw of the dice' involved. There may be many reasons that are non g related why a person may underperform. Some being outwardly noticeable during a proctored test, and some not.
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I used to be a lot more creative when younger than I am now. I'd say that's true for most people, including famous artistic people. Whether creative/gifted or not I've certainly failed to live up to any potential I may have had.
One of the main things that tipped me over into having an SMI was the 18 months of severe anxiety trying to balance not wanting to let down my parents down vs being acutely aware that I was far from able to cope with the non academic side of college/uni life.