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11:32am August 1, 2014
gamegrrl asked: Hi!! What does gifted-passing mean? I saw you use it in a response, but I'm not really sure what you meant by it :0

I meant passing for gifted.  It was sort of shorthand for a longer more complicated situation.  There are certain autistic people who manage to either pass for gifted, or be passed off as gifted (whether they technically qualify or not).  Mind you I don’t like the entire category of giftedness, but that’s a very long story.

(I consider myself exgifted.  Meaning, I took a test when I was almost six years old, and I was classified as gifted on the basis of that test.  I was tested again at 15 and again at 22 and neither time did my test scores qualify me as gifted.  And then people try to either come up with reasons that I’m “still gifted and they just can’t test for it” (nope) or… other stuff I find pretty offensive (because it all hinges on “how can someone be ‘smart’ and have an 85 IQ at the same time?” which should not even be a question because IQ is just a number and 'smart’ is subjective, but the fact they feel they have to justify it, tells me too much about what they think of people wit low IQs).  And I’m not the only person I know in my position, so, I made up the term exgifted to describe it:  Once got classified as gifted, no longer qualify.) 

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