Thanks for your story Grinity.... However your story Grinity, almost every word of it, was my own.
....... As a result, to communicate effectively I was going to need to adjust my thinking, expectations (not necesarily down, just to something more realistic) and communication style.
Thanks Giftodd, I'm so pleased. I do think that there is a bit of a paradox that when one stops expecting that everyone else is like them, then one can truly appreciate and celebrate others as they are. I also don't experience it as 'down' - maybe down is in the eye of the beholder. Part of it is just 'what works and what doesn't' and normally developing people in my experience do about the same proportion of 'what works' as Gifted people.
In a way I wish the 'ugly ducking' story was told with a chicken instead of a swan. Swans are so pretty, and nasty personalities as well. I've grown up trying hard to be a good duck, and was always bad at it. now I enjoy being a terrific chicken, and the ducks are more fathomable, and more fun too.
((shrugs))
Grinity
