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5:57pm
May 6, 2014
Maybe my number one giftedness myth.
The one where, when people discover that I was ever considered gifted, they think they know something important about me, or the way I think. Or it makes them take out a piece of me and highlight it and look at it differently than they once did. I don’t know how to describe this, but it really cuts me deeply, and I can’t explain why. I can’t explain why something that’s supposed to be positive hurts so badly, feels like being sliced into pieces, scrutinized, and put under a microscope.
Is it because they’re acting like the rest of you isn’t important? Like they think giftedness matters but your disabilities don’t?
That may be part of it, or it may stir up really bad memories. It does hurt much the same way that it hurts when people only see my disabilities (or what they presume my disabilities to be) and can’t see the rest of me, so that may be a big part of it.
clolocat reblogged this from elfstaranymore and added:sounds like what cold/cut-off scientists do to their subjectscary. thats dehumanization i think
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It bothers me when people know I’m gifted, or talk about the fact that I’m gifted because it makes me feel like I have...
nectaresque reblogged this from nectaresque and added:It’s also the combination of autism and giftedness where the giftedness is the way in, the hook that is baited with the...
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withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from elfstaranymore and added:That may be part of it, or it may stir up really bad memories. It does hurt much the same way that it hurts when people...
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elfstaranymore reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:Is it because they’re acting like the rest of you isn’t important? Like they think giftedness matters but your...
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