Gifted children's selective attention and rapid processing are often misdiagnosed as ADHD due to educational mismatches and insufficient teacher training.
Neurodivergent Mind: When Your Common Sense Is Not Common
Neurodivergent and gifted individuals often assume others share their rapid, high-level thinking, causing mismatches between intellectual capacity and social awareness.
Exploring the history and connotations of the word 'gifted' - Harvard Gazette
Giftedness is a culturally defined concept that shifted to mean academic intelligence with industrial schooling and IQ tests, often carrying elitist connotations.
Invisible intelligence: Girls with high abilities who don't fit in
Women with high intellectual abilities have historically been invisible due to social pressures, causing many to hide talents and go unnoticed until adulthood.
Gifted adults often sense misalignment between their capabilities and life, hampered by internalized shame that frames power as dangerous and fosters incongruence.
Intellectually advanced viewers enjoy RHOC for narrative complexity, novelty, moral ambiguity, and dark satire that reward pattern recognition and cognitive engagement.
Humiliation trauma in gifted individuals registers somatically before conscious recognition and grows from childhood suppression and social punishment of natural responses.
