This case study explores how giftedness affects adults’ emotional, social and occupational lives. Using Susan’s therapy, it highlights common issues—sensitivity, existential depression, perfectionism, multipotentiality, and relationship difficulties—and recommends validation, coping strategies, peer connections, and therapeutic support.
This essay argues that giftedness is an enduring mode of mental processing, not merely childhood precocity. Adults with gifted minds often face emotional intensity, social isolation, and frustration when society equates giftedness with visible achievement. Greater recognition and support beyond performance metrics are needed.
This article discusses challenges gifted adults face at work, describing characteristics such as rapid thinking, sensitivity, introversion, perfectionism, and learning differences. Case studies illustrate how recognition, appropriate job adjustments, psychological assessment and career guidance can restore motivation and help gifted employees contribute effectively.
This article describes five traits common among gifted adults—divergency, excitability, sensitivity, perceptivity, and entelechy—and examines their positive and negative social and emotional effects. It suggests practical self-growth options such as self-knowledge, acceptance, finding personal power, and nurturing supportive interpersonal relationships throughout adulthood.
This article outlines five affective needs for gifted adults: acknowledging gifts, nurturing identity, accepting imperfection, managing overexcitabilities, and learning coping skills. It explains validation, affirmation, affiliation, affinity, and practical stress-management and communication strategies to support emotional growth and model healthy behavior for gifted children.
Kuipers argues many gifted adults hide or deny their giftedness because social definitions tie giftedness to eminent achievement. He introduces “eXtra intelligence” (Xi) as an accessible, neutral concept to help adults recognize talents, strengthen gifted identity through validation, affirmation, affiliation and affinity, and find personal fulfillment.
This post surveys literature on gifted adults, noting that giftedness extends beyond eminent figures and can be unrecognized from childhood. It summarizes three SENG articles addressing development, challenges (emotional intensity, moral issues, social realities), characteristics, and practical strategies for nurturing adult giftedness and coping skills.
The article surveys research and policy on learning diversity from birth through college, arguing that education should treat each child as a unique individual. It reviews genetic, neurological, preschool and school influences, and advocates individualized support and policy changes to improve outcomes for diverse learners.
Author Nadia Webb describes attending a funeral and addresses readers experiencing suicidal thoughts, offering practical self-care advice: exercise, healthier habits, managing self-talk, seeking supportive therapists, medication guidance, crisis lines, and collecting counterarguments. She emphasizes persistence, small steps, and not evaluating life’s worth in a bleak moment.
An experienced neuropsychologist reflects on inattention, describing everyday forgetfulness and a busy life that complicates organization. She cautions against quick diagnostic labeling or relying solely on medication, urging consideration of context, balance for gifted children, and practical strategies to manage passions and responsibilities.
