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@[email protected] Have you come across Dabrowski? The over simplified version is that he postulates that high development potential ("giftedness") isn't comorbid with emotional over excitability, but is driven by it. Well, that, or you self implode (he refers to growth via positive and negative disintegration as the excitability refuses to allow statis). I'm enormously over simplifying to the point of being dangerous inaccurate, but it may be worth a look if you haven't seen it before. dabrowskicenter.org/developm...

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Developmental Potential from Dabrowski

Developmental potential in Dabrowski's work This page includes Dąbrowski's writing about developmental potential from four of his books. Dr. Chris Wells and Dr. Frank Falk examined these sections as separate documents while working on their presentation for the 2018 Dabrowski Congress, Overexcitabilities: The Drivers of Developmental Potential. It was the beginning of the work which […]

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Michael Newton

@mavnn 6 mo. ago

@[email protected] I think that was a large part of his point - he was writing in the 70s so that was reasonably radical and it's not like there aren't still a lot of misconceptions about 'giftedness' (such a terrible term, as you say). I've seen his work and the follow on work that built on it (Silverman etc) used to push back against the idea of the 'gifted genius', mature beyond their years, striding forwards with logical certainity because being intelligent obviously means 'being able to do more of the same thing overbody else can.'

Michael Newton

@mavnn 6 mo. ago

@[email protected] He was one of the first people to point out that's not really how humans work; 'high potential'/'profoundly gifted' humans don't think like everybody else more quickly, way instead tend to have more bandwidth, make more connections, make intuitive and emotional jumps that they post-hoc justify afterwards - all the things you're saying. Just with some scientific papers to wave in the face of professionals and teachers who are determined to double down on 'that child can't be bright, they aren't perfectly behaved!'.

Michael Newton

@mavnn 6 mo. ago

@[email protected] (insert rant here about people needing to justify their lived experience with 'published papers' to actually be listened to)