People NEED to Read This

[eredien]

If you are at all interested in:

- teaching
- hypoglycemia
- why you have wierd dreams
- ADD, Bi-polar, Multiple Personalities, Hypeactivity, etc.
- if you were ever called "gifted"
- why you were so bored in grade school
- why you had the ability to be profoundly disillusioned at the state of the world in grade four

Please read this article now. It's short.

Thank you, Elynne.

Comments

[batshua]

THANK YOU!!!

Wow.

All of a sudden, a LOT of things make more sense.

Can we talk about this IRL sometime?

wow

[wayman.livejournal.com]

What Batshua said, goes for me too. Thanks for posting this.

Re: wow

[(Anonymous)]

So I *wasn't* just screwy! Yay! ::grin:: This ties into the idea that me and my friend have.. we both fit about ninety percent of the sutff on that list, and we were talking about how ADHD has to be mis-labelled on some kids because of how many kids have it, and then we were talking about how the public school system (in Oregon at least) has no provision to handle gifted kids. Instead, it's easier to label them with problems and hand them off to someone else. Of course, at this rate we're cutting *another* two weeks off school (already the shortest year in the nation) so whatever. Anyway, THANK YOU for that. I'm gonna keep it.

Swiftpaws

Fascinating . . .

[(Anonymous)]

Huh.

I will want to go away & think about this.

First reactions, though: Yeah, intelligent, creative children (or adults) are often social misfits among their peers and/or have authority conflicts. I think we knew this. What do they suggest _doing_ about it? Especially for the children, who are getting their bright little minds squashed.

Aside from the fact that public schools are a horrible place for intelligent people, but we knew that . . .

-Dyrnhelm

[thespooniest.livejournal.com]

In other news, the sky is blue :)

Sorry about that. Seriously, this was something I'd always taken as a given. It's good to finally see some real academic backing behind it, though. And I'm somewhat saddened that more people hadn't seen things this way, because it's what kept me sane at a few points where the public schools demanded I be evaluated psychologically even though no one was ever able to find anything wrong.

The link to hypoglycemia is something I'd never heard, though.

[eredien]

Yes, people who want to talk with me about this whenever can talk.

Um, yeah, B. - I know. I mean, they've suspected something was up with all these highly sensitive and articulate painters and writers going and killing themselves or chopping ears off, whatever, for years. But I liked the way the article put it. And it wasn't fluff science. So that's why I posted it.

[(Anonymous)]

maybe it's just because i'm in the field, but, um, duh?

i think, i _hope_ we knew that already.
i sometimes wonder if clinical practitioners are required to forget everything they learn in school when they go into practice. sigh.
but the system requires boxes, and "gifted" isn't a box they recognize. stupid system.
not going to rant.

gallian