- “You might be twice-exceptional if… Folks rave about your accomplishments, but you know you could do so much more.” – Aurora Remember
- “Each twice-exceptional person has such a unique combination of passions, strengths, and challenges.” – Julie Skolnick
- “Attention deficit disorder is completely misnamed. It actually is attention to everything.” – Linda Roggli
- “Research Shows Neurodivergent Individuals Excel Creatively” – Psychology Today
What is 2e? Aurora Remember is founder of Embracing Intensity with programs to help you “identify and use your neurodivergent strengths, while supporting your challenges.”
She summarizes in a post on her site:
You might be twice-exceptional if…
You’ve always been told you’re “not living up to your potential,” or
Folks rave about your accomplishments, but you know you could do so much more.
You skated through high school, but dropped out of college, or
You struggled through school until college or grad school when you could choose your own path.
You had in depth discussions of books you never read because you couldn’t keep up with the reading, or
You ravenously read books way too advanced for your age and maturity level starting at a very young age. …
Video by Aurora Remember: Twice Exceptionality: When Giftedness Meets ADHD
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Article with podcast version of her video above: The complex life of being 2e gifted, neurodivergent, ADHD with Aurora Remember.
Related article (with another Creative Mind Audio Podcast episode): 2E Adult, Gifted, Neurodivergence – Do labels help? With Aurora Remember.
She comments “nobody really likes the term gifted. And I don’t really love the term twice exceptional either. But those are the terms we have there, the technical terms for certain phenomenon, that are very real, and are not talked about enough, especially in adults.”
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Julie Skolnick is host of the Let’s Talk 2e Adult Conference with presentations by 16+ experts “sharing powerful strategies on everything from dating to self-advocacy.”
Video: “What is Twice Exceptional / 2e?“
Learn more in article How To Thrive More as a High Ability Adult – the Let’s Talk 2e Adult Conference.
One of her videos in the article is on emotion regulation, and Julie Skolnick comments:
“If you’ve followed my work for a while, you’ll know ‘Once you’ve met one 2e person, you’ve met one 2e person’ is one of my favorite sayings.
“Each twice-exceptional person has such a unique combination of passions, strengths, and challenges that no two people can possibly be the same!
“But there is one aspect of twice-exceptionality all (and I mean ALL) of my clients are challenged by: emotion regulation.”
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The complex experience of 2E adults with ADHD with Linda Roggli
Podcast episode – an excerpt from her presentation at the 2e Adult Conference:
Linda Roggli is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), award-winning author and founder of the A-D-Diva Network for ADHD women 40-and-better.
She comments in this podcast episode:
ADHD is like screw ups, right? ADHD is like having trouble in school. ADHD is like your space cadet – “I can’t even think of what’s wrong with you; can’t you even, you know, stay and pay attention.”
And most importantly, a lot of times ADHD is associated with failure, a profound sense of failure, which just goes right to the heart of everything we’re going to talk about today.
But the thing is, that those descriptors don’t always apply to high IQ, ADHD folks.
We are the honor students. We are the ones that you know, we may do at school at the last minute, but we’re getting our book reports in there.
We’re getting the A’s were in the gifted programs. …
We become really obsessed with details. And that’s ironic because ADHD is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, you think attention deficit would be Oh, we don’t pay attention to those details.
But actually, attention deficit disorder is completely misnamed. It actually is attention to everything.
** See more from transcript at the episode page of the Creative Mind Audio Podcast.
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Research Shows Neurodivergent Individuals Excel Creatively
By Morgan Blair M.A., LPCC, Psychology Today
“Neurodivergence is typically considered within the context of psychological and developmental hindrances. The DSM-5 has multiple diagnoses, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), or dyslexia, that describe the symptoms associated with different examples of neurodivergence.
It has long been speculated that neurodivergence is associated with increased levels of creativity, and now research is beginning to prove this concept. Their brain’s divergence from the norm allows neurodivergent individuals to perceive and experience the world in unique ways that naturally lend itself to artistic or creative pursuits.”
See link to article in The Creative Mind Magazine [Flipboard]
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Douglas Eby (M.A./Psychology) is author of the The Creative Mind series of sites which provide “Information and inspiration to help creative people thrive.”
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