Too Smart for Your Own Good: The Paradoxical Experience of Twice-Exceptionality
Location
2078
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
January 2015
End Date
January 2015
Abstract
Autoethnography helps explore my life as a twice-exceptional (2e) woman derailed in adolescence by an identity shift from gifted to mentally ill. As a 2e child I was educated as gifted while struggling with undiagnosed ADHD, displaying asynchronous, disruptive behaviors. Hospitalized for bipolar disorder at 21 I joined the stigmatized population of the mentally ill, but was driven to reject stigma and create a successful life. Theories of intelligence, resilience, and stigma guide this study.
Too Smart for Your Own Good: The Paradoxical Experience of Twice-Exceptionality
2078
Autoethnography helps explore my life as a twice-exceptional (2e) woman derailed in adolescence by an identity shift from gifted to mentally ill. As a 2e child I was educated as gifted while struggling with undiagnosed ADHD, displaying asynchronous, disruptive behaviors. Hospitalized for bipolar disorder at 21 I joined the stigmatized population of the mentally ill, but was driven to reject stigma and create a successful life. Theories of intelligence, resilience, and stigma guide this study.
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