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Of course you could just call it "memories" - we all have a shelf life, and we can pick and choose from the shelves at our leisure. We are our own librarians in the language we choose.

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Carrie Waldron-Brown

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Conquering the College Essay with Carrie Waldron-Brown, MA Get motivated to start your pesky college essay AND learn more about what factually contributes to a powerful personal statement. Join us for Tredyffrin Public Library’s free...

Hey! This is a fab digest worth consideration. Hope you find it helpful. 🙌🤩👍

It can be a very confusing experience to be gifted and have another neurodivergence. Your gifted mind moves in one direction, while your other neurodivergence(s) sometimes pulls you in an opposite direction. The resulting internal tension can leave you feeling stressed, unsure, insecure or even ashamed. It can make it really hard to know what exactly you want, what exactly you need, and what precisely you should do to meet those needs, both in any given moment and in a bigger life purpose picture. It can also make communicating your thoughts, desires, needs and feelings to others difficult, even when you really want to connect well with them!

Here's a look at some of the classic internal tension points of gifted people who also have ADHD. Naturally, some of the listed elements can apply in both cases. For example, gifted people also generally love novelty, stimulation and sometimes rapidly shift attention. However, when ADHD is present, the love of novelty, etc, is heightened and seems to enter into consistent conflict with the gifted mind's desire for sustained attention and depth. Conversely, people with ADHD are known to go into periods of 'hyperfocus' - sustained attention toward depth, where they struggle to come out of total immersion in an area of interest. The key here is to understand that maintaining a balance and flow between the two states (depth and novelty) seems to be a bigger struggle when ADHD is present alongside giftedness.

If we look at the next point, complexity vs. simplicity, this is a thinking vs. behaving issue. In the abstract realms of thought, a gifted person with ADHD can explore the most complex realms with ease. But their ADHD will come with a need for comparative simplicity in order to take action on those abstractions. In other words, they might have a huge, multi-dimensional vision in place, but functionally struggle to implement the steps in order to make that happen. To some degree, again, this is a classic gifted-only dilemma (big picture vision, relative struggle with minutia). But for a gifted person with ADHD, that contrast is more dominant and pervasive in managing their daily life and task management (usually called 'executive function').

So any comparative list has to be taken in context. The helpful thing to remember here is the world *relative*. While any gifted person may at times show some of the same tendencies that are listed under the ADHD heading, people with ADHD know that these tendencies are a relatively stronger part of their everyday experience than for those without this particular form of neurodivergence, and that these strong tendencies create a relatively constant internal struggle and tension that needs loving care and mindful *attention*.

Here's an article on our blog about nurturing the multiple inner neurodivergent parts of a twice or multiple exceptional profile: https://intergifted.com/giftedness-neurodivergence/

There's a lot that can be done to ease the inner tension between conflicting parts of our neurodivergence(s), and the above article supports a kind and realistic reframing of the struggle. A good start is just being able to identify and name the conflicting energies within. With that validation, we can gain a meta-view of our own inner system, and what we can do to support harmonious inner workings and more nourishing and fluid engagement with the outer world.

What are some of your favorite resources on this topic?

Up for a quiet rebellion? Here ya go:

The 11 most challenged books of 2025, according to the American Library Association The ALA says 4,235 titles were challenged at U.S. libraries — the second-highest year on record. Forty percent of the challenged works involved LGBTQ+ subjects or the experiences of people of color.

Hampshire College closing--😧the Grim Reaper comes for the humanities, again.

Hampshire College Will Close Amid Student Enrollment Declines Other small private colleges like Hampshire have closed in recent years as financial pressures and competition for students increase.

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
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