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After some research, it seems that the most related types to giftedness are NP types. As a child I was "diagnosed" as, I think, a gifted kid. My mother says that they never gave the IQ results that I got, but I remember going to a center for kids with some psychological problems, I remember being very bored in class, unable to stay focused, I would do assignements very easily and quickly and then move on to babble with other kids who in the end weren't able to focus on the assignement. I was a very hyper kid at school, but at home, I woud just sit and play video games.
I knew how to read way before a kid was supposed to, before I could even hold a pen, I learned to use my left hand, while I was normally a right handed kid. In the end I had to skip a year and things became a bit more challenging, I was more or less at a suitable "level".
Fun thing is that I remember having to write down multiplication tables nemerous times in order to learn them, mathematics were my huge weakness. I always thought that it was my mother who told me to do that, but after asking many many years later, she told me that I was the one inventing fictional homeworks. I guess I was a weird kid.
I didn't knew how to "work", usually knowledge would just come out of nowhere, I couldn't recite the lesson, but I didn't need it for accomplishing the tasks in school.
Since maths were my weakness and that I didn't knew how to sit down and work on it in order to understand it, I never had good grades in maths, however language was effortless for me.
Reading descriptions of gifted kids, I heavily relate to parts of it, it's like I matured backwards.
In the end, my parents refused to work on that, they wanted me to be normal and in the mold. I resent them for that, I always felt a bit off, looking for something without knowing what. Things are a bit better now, I'm able to navigate social situations, I used to test as INTP, now I'm 50/50 between I and E. And I lost most of the contempt I had for most people,
But there is this vague feeling of nostalgia, of what could have been.
I still have no interest of mathematics, I think I lost most of this 'thing', academics are still not too difficult for me, I very easily understand concepts (when they interest me) and I still have this "intuition", sometimes I know how things are, but I can't explain it. For example in english (I'm not american, or from the UK), I "feel" the words, very often I think in english in my head, or when I'm looking for a term, I know the english term, but not the one in my native language. I wouldn't say I'm a particuarly sharp guy, maybe I have a shitty IQ, I'm very goofy in social situations and I can probably come off as a dumb and clumsy guy with shitty attention capabilities.
Do you have experiences with gifted persons, or are you one ? How did you turn out in the end ? Why would NPs be more prevalent in the case of giftedness ? What do you think of giftedness ?
I knew how to read way before a kid was supposed to, before I could even hold a pen, I learned to use my left hand, while I was normally a right handed kid. In the end I had to skip a year and things became a bit more challenging, I was more or less at a suitable "level".
Fun thing is that I remember having to write down multiplication tables nemerous times in order to learn them, mathematics were my huge weakness. I always thought that it was my mother who told me to do that, but after asking many many years later, she told me that I was the one inventing fictional homeworks. I guess I was a weird kid.
I didn't knew how to "work", usually knowledge would just come out of nowhere, I couldn't recite the lesson, but I didn't need it for accomplishing the tasks in school.
Since maths were my weakness and that I didn't knew how to sit down and work on it in order to understand it, I never had good grades in maths, however language was effortless for me.
Reading descriptions of gifted kids, I heavily relate to parts of it, it's like I matured backwards.
In the end, my parents refused to work on that, they wanted me to be normal and in the mold. I resent them for that, I always felt a bit off, looking for something without knowing what. Things are a bit better now, I'm able to navigate social situations, I used to test as INTP, now I'm 50/50 between I and E. And I lost most of the contempt I had for most people,
But there is this vague feeling of nostalgia, of what could have been.
I still have no interest of mathematics, I think I lost most of this 'thing', academics are still not too difficult for me, I very easily understand concepts (when they interest me) and I still have this "intuition", sometimes I know how things are, but I can't explain it. For example in english (I'm not american, or from the UK), I "feel" the words, very often I think in english in my head, or when I'm looking for a term, I know the english term, but not the one in my native language. I wouldn't say I'm a particuarly sharp guy, maybe I have a shitty IQ, I'm very goofy in social situations and I can probably come off as a dumb and clumsy guy with shitty attention capabilities.
Do you have experiences with gifted persons, or are you one ? How did you turn out in the end ? Why would NPs be more prevalent in the case of giftedness ? What do you think of giftedness ?
