#overexcitability

[megmurrayswrinkle]

The crippling longing to know more is real. It’s stunting if you look it too long in the face. Instead, sneak up on it - watch it vaguely out of the corner of your eye. Collect the books and records and friends who feel the same with a gentle hand and pounce when your obsession to learn is not looking. Being fearful that you’ll never read enough, know enough, study enough is just someone else’s measure of intelligence. Forget the anxiety and revel instead at the love of it all: the beauty. You want ‘to know?’ Then be the tortoise. Don’t compare yourself to those who explode like fireworks - be the candle that illuminates the darkness and burns all night.

[the-first-and-last-she-geek]

this is gonna be kind of long-winded I think

So, I’ve known I’ve been “gifted” since forever, I had extra classes in school etc etc...

My mum just made me take an “overexcitability” test, and so I’m basically overexcitable intellectually, imaginatively and emotionally. The problematic one here is emotionally.

While the others just mean you’re good at imagining or planning or whatever, the sole perk of the emotional one is empathy. And the negatives are: you’re basically a psycho bitch.

I thought my way of experiencing emotions was normal, but now I know it’s not I would really like to be “fixed”. I’ve been googling but there are no solutions apart from “find someone gullible enough to put up with you”. I can’t keep being a burden on people, and I’m damned sure this is part of why my boyfriend is sick of me at this point (as it means I have a veerrryyy hard time forgiving and forgetting)

help pls, I just want to be normal

[bathask]

大人の発達障害やアスペルガー症候群無い頃より自閉スペクトラム症DSM-5診断基準の光るもの興味で繊細微妙な影と光加減に過覚醒し過度激動。自閉症スペクトラムで感覚処理感受性かASD普段と違う曇り空の室内空間環境の感覚的側面,心躍り動揺。ゲリラ雷雨の繰り返す白き葉裏の小波見入る昨日のB型事業所

[bathask]

感覚刺激多くて溢れ感覚飽和する感覚過敏発作のイギリス自閉症協会YouTube動画みたいな視界見辛い不安MAXパニック発作時の縞々揺れる物や文字の高コントラスト輪郭線強調の感覚過負荷時は困るけど発達障害のアスペルガー症候群/自閉症スペクトラム障害ASD草木の繰り返す葉や身辺の模様過度激動的過興奮

[jeffreyshoemaker]

Dabrowski's Overexcitabilities in Gifted Children

Dabrowski’s Overexcitabilities in Gifted Children

This Sunday , April 17th at 9pm ET, #ohiogtchat will be discussing Dabrowski’s Overexcitabilties (OE). If you are not are not familar with  Dabrowski and the traits of the OE, here is a short background.

Kazimierz Dabrowski was a Polish psychiatrist who created a framework called Theory of Positive Disintegration which is basically that conflict and inner suffering were necessary for advanced…

View On WordPress

[ma-danse-alanguie]

Cue self-entitled gifted rant

I sometimes really hate the fact that my (fairly mild compared to some people’s) sensory overexcitability (it’s a gifted thing, google it) makes me despise people who sound and/or smell in a way I don’t like, because they’re often nice people really, but I just cannot tolerate being around them because of their obnoxious breathing noises or whiny voice or lack of proper diction or infuriating taste for eating foods with bacon/orange/strong cheese in them while I’m there.

The trouble is that people don’t understand what it’s like, so they keep breathing in my ear and waving bacon crisps in my face while I’m there wincing in genuine physical discomfort and wishing they would just vacate the planet so I can have some tranquility for once.

(I’d also like to take the time to thank the wonderful people who have beautiful voices and wear lovely perfume and eat food with a pleasant aroma around me. Keep doing that, please, if only for my sanity. You don’t know how much I appreciate your existence.)

[actuallygt]

In light of our recent topic of overexcitabilities and overloads, I found a checklist that has been used at what appears to be a school in the US (though the document itself appears to have originated in Australia).

What are everyone’s thoughts on this?

Admin Shan

[actuallygt]

This is a pretty in depth page. I take issue with "mental age," but that aside I like a lot of this. It talks about overexcitabilities a bit too, which is why it popped up in my searches earlier. Admin Shan