Gifted and Twice Exceptional Adults: Cumulative Relational Trauma

A brief introduction to Cumulative Relational Trauma and Gifted and Twice-exceptional Adults by psychotherapist and psychological researcher Dr. Maggie Brown (www.maggiebrown.co).

[@wiskadjak]

I watched the video about your focus groups and the pushback you are getting to your work. I have thoughts about this. To me "giftedness" is a way of being not a means to an end. It looks like you are trying to facilitate a self-organizing system (as per complexity theory) into being as a means of studying your subject. Excellent idea. The Santa Fe Institute would be proud. The objections to your work may be coming from more linear/reductionist thinkers who struggle with connectedness or complex interactions. However, there may be other factors at play. As a Canadian I am painfully aware of American exceptionilism. To quote Melania: Be Best. This leads into the idea that to be someone you have to meet, or exceed, an Olympic Standard in every endeavour you undertake. It's about beating all the other competitors or you're nobody. I suspect that this notion extends to economic competition. As Capitalists how are we going to win in the economic struggle for existence and greater profits? What sort of intellectual resources can we exploit to our benefit? Can we guide the gifted towards achievement and productivity? How shall we dampen their humanitarian tendencies and control them? You see what I'm driving at here. Some of the less ethical people in your field may feel economically threatened because you are taking away the geese that, they hope, will lay golden eggs. Just think about gifted children in the tender clutches of the Elon Musks and Bill Gates of the world.

[@sunshinegold8451]

This has been EXACTLY my conclusion, as well. I learned of brilliant man named Henri Bergson ❤ Bergson accepted 'evolution' as a scientific established fact, he criticized however all the philosophical interpretations that had been given OF IT for FAILING to see the importance of *duration* therefore missing the very essence and uniqueness OF life altogether. He proposed that the whole evolutionary process should be seen as the endurance of an élan vital (“vital impulse”) that is continually developing and generating new forms. Constantly IN-FLUX, in a moving state. Evolution is creative, not static, not mechanistic. You cannot quantitatively assess intelligence.. We are not numbers. And on there very basis of "evolution" they supposedly adhere to the same belief of constant motion. BUT isn't it interesting that "they" all say that "for the sake of societal norms and a constant growing functioning society" they see us as..disordered. that we are: -"much too vocal" about injustices, -"Disabled" seeing as we are "preoccupied and inattentive towards instruction" taught in guise as "school lessons" but in truth is indoctrination and distraction from it. -an individual thing cannot be ordered or controlled. -we are too grandiose in thinking lol apparently by knowing our inherent significance as a living soul and the significance of every soul around us. But these are highly sought after qualities in.. entrepreneurs, lawyers, bankers, doctors, entertainment, justice, universities, etc.. correct? WHOM then HAS set this standard of "normal"? And why is the socio-economic growth excuse the only reason for diagnoses and labels toward a population that is actually already gifted to do just tha... ohhhhh thats right, that's right.

[@humanistastv]

I think I am just gifted no other thing but I have that!