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Psychology
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23 hours ago

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.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Exploring the Existential Crisis of the Gifted

Gifted adults often sense misalignment between their capabilities and life, hampered by internalized shame that frames power as dangerous and fosters incongruence.
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Being a Gifted, High-IQ Person in a Non-Gifted Family

Growing up intellectually gifted in a household in which no one shares your cognitive intensity creates a kind of loneliness that cannot easily be named. It is more than being smart. You are just being who you naturally are, but, inevitably, you are out of sync with the world around you. One of the sad realities of being neurodivergent and out of sync with others in the family is that you inevitably feel oppressed or humiliated.
Mental health
Television
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

The Link Between Real Mensans and Real Housewives

Intellectually advanced viewers enjoy RHOC for narrative complexity, novelty, moral ambiguity, and dark satire that reward pattern recognition and cognitive engagement.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Humiliation Wound in Gifted Adults

Humiliation trauma in gifted individuals registers somatically before conscious recognition and grows from childhood suppression and social punishment of natural responses.
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