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ADHD for Smart Ass Women by Tracy Otsuka

The Year I Met My Brain by Matilda Boseley

Neurodivergence Resources

147 books — 15 voters

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The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller

High IQ books

92 books — 20 voters

The Courage Of A Clear No by Mick Coker Ofieroho

The Gifted Adult by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen

Gifted Grownups by Marylou Kelly Streznewski

The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine N. Aron

Gifted Adults

39 books — 23 voters

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A Kids Book About Executive Functioning by Iris Wong

Neurodivergent & Thriving

11 books — 8 voters

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The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness by David A. Treleaven

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77 books — 33 voters

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“ Owing to the shape of a bell curve, the education system is geared to the mean. Unfortunately, that kind of education is virtually calculated to bore and alienate gifted minds. But instead of making exceptions where it would do the most good, the educational bureaucracy often prefers not to be bothered. In my case, for example, much of the schooling to which I was subjected was probably worse than nothing. It consisted not of real education, but of repetition and oppressive socialization (entir Owing to the shape of a bell curve, the education system is geared to the mean. Unfortunately, that kind of education is virtually calculated to bore and alienate gifted minds. But instead of making exceptions where it would do the most good, the educational bureaucracy often prefers not to be bothered. In my case, for example, much of the schooling to which I was subjected was probably worse than nothing. It consisted not of real education, but of repetition and oppressive socialization (entirely superfluous given the dose of oppression I was getting away from school). Had I been left alone, preferably with access to a good library and a minimal amount of high-quality instruction, I would at least have been free to learn without useless distractions and gratuitous indoctrination. But alas, no such luck. Let’s try to break the problem down a bit. The education system […] is committed to a warm and fuzzy but scientifically counterfactual form of egalitarianism which attributes all intellectual differences to environmental factors rather than biology, implying that the so-called 'gifted' are just pampered brats who, unless their parents can afford private schooling, should atone for their undeserved good fortune by staying behind and enriching the classroom environments of less privileged students. This approach may appear admirable, but its effects on our educational and intellectual standards, and all that depends on them, have already proven to be overwhelmingly negative. This clearly betrays an ulterior motive, suggesting that it has more to do with social engineering than education. There is an obvious difference between saying that poor students have all of the human dignity and basic rights of better students, and saying that there are no inherent educationally and socially relevant differences among students. The first statement makes sense, while the second does not. The gifted population accounts for a very large part of the world’s intellectual resources. As such, they can obviously be put to better use than smoothing the ruffled feathers of average or below-average students and their parents by decorating classroom environments which prevent the gifted from learning at their natural pace. The higher we go on the scale of intellectual brilliance – and we’re not necessarily talking just about IQ – the less support is offered by the education system, yet the more likely are conceptual syntheses and grand intellectual achievements of the kind seldom produced by any group of markedly less intelligent people. In some cases, the education system is discouraging or blocking such achievements, and thus cheating humanity of their benefits. ...more ”
― Christopher Langan

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“ I hate when people say they are not creative. That destructive self-denial keeps them trapped within the confines of a false bubble of protection. What they are doing is attempting to not feel the judgement of others and to not have their feelings hurt. Just like giftedness, everyone has a degree of, and an area in which, they are either more gifted or more creative than the average person. Believing in your abilities is the first step in overcoming this fear. ”
― Jeff Keene II

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