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Giftedness

Haut Potentiel, Surdoué » Pour en finir avec les mythes sur la douance » WISC V : pour un abandon progressif du Q.I. total Dabrowski - Le WiQI des surdoués, zèbres et autres HQI Coaching for Gifted Adults - InterGifted The Double-Edged Sword of Giftedness, Part 1: Cognitive Traits | Psychology Today The Double-Edged Sword of Giftedness, Part 2: Affective Traits | Psychology Today What is Giftedness? - InterGifted The Stages of Adult Giftedness Discovery & How Gifted Coaching Can Help - InterGifted Jennifer Harvey Sallin (Author of Being Me) What is Giftedness? - InterGifted High, Exceptional & Profound Giftedness - InterGifted Gifted Men and Self-Acceptance (Possible coach for Carlo?) Book Review: Paula Prober's Your Rainforest Mind - InterGifted If I’m So Smart, Why Do I Need Psychotherapy? | Your Rainforest Mind Who Were You Before You Learned That You Are Supposed To Be Normal? | Your Rainforest Mind Multipotentiality: Are You Overwhelmed By Your Too Muchness? | Your Rai

Functioning labels

  New Option to Replace Functioning Levels – Wibbly Wobbly, Neuro-UNlogical Stuff The Problems with Functioning Labels The Fallacy of Functioning Labels – Speaking of Autism… You Don’t Speak for My Child! Autistic Activist | I was an Institutionalized, Labeled Low Functioning, Non-verbal Autistic Child: Achieved Independent Living At 35. – International Badass Activists 5 Major Problems with Using Autism Functioning Labels New research shows 'high functioning' is an inaccurate autism label Why "High Functioning" Autism Is So Challenging TPGA: The Problems with Functioning Labels Researchers call for the term 'high functioning autism' to be consigned to history What is Low-Functioning Autism? (© Frank L. Ludwig) More Problems with Functioning Labels Decoding the High Functioning Label | Musings of an Aspie Why I'm Not a High-Functioning Autistic » NeuroClastic Lysik'an — You don't speak for Low-functioning autistics Support Needs vs Functioning Labe

Autistic/ND social media accounts I follow and my favorites among them

(Bolded links are my favorites) Favorite autistic/adhd Facebook groups The ND Social Club: A Neurokin Network Autism Late Diagnosis Support and Education Autistic Women Ask me, I'm autistic (24h rule!) Autistic Survivors of Trauma Autism Canada ASD central Aspergers & Autism Safe Room: A Safe Haven For Women On The Spectrum Autistics United Canada: autistics and allies group Autistic Adults with ADHD Autistic Allies Autism and ADHD Autistic Researchers Researching Autism (ARRA) Older Asperger's/autism women Trigger warning - why ABA is abusive Neuroclastic has an article for that Autistic Allies in Education That au-some book club Autisme : Dénonçons l'ICI et l'ABA! -Collectif québécois- Montreal Autistics Favorite autistic/adhd Facebook pages Vellum and Vinyl K. Bron Johnson: Writer, Autistic Self-Advocate, Sensitivity Reader Better Ways Than ABA Changing the Narrative About Autism and PDA Unmasked I've been autistic all along? Trauma Geek - Trauma and Neurod

Autistic Masking

  The price of Autistic masking, or Let there be stims! – Liminal Nest Complex Rhythm: Not #Masking But Dancing #ActuallyAutistic | My Autistic Dance Stop Forcing Autistic Masking on Children · 71 Republic An Autistic Perspective #TakeTheMaskOff – Masking, Mental Health, & Burnout – Neurodivergent Rebel Talking About Autism and Masking – #TakeTheMaskOff – Neurodivergent Rebel The Painfully High Price of Autistic Masking - I Told You I Was Sick The Painfully High Price of Autistic Masking – Part 1 » NeuroClastic The Painfully High Price of Autistic Masking – Part 2 » NeuroClastic Masking autism nearly killed her | Uncomfortable Revolution Masking: An Act of Resistance - The Autistic Advocate Autistic masking is a big deal because of the extent to which we have to mask to survive, but everyone masks sometimes. It's not necessarily about trauma. Masking is a specific kind of fawning, where we suppress our true feelings and authentic movements i An Autistic Guide to Unmasking Abusi

Identity-first vs person-first language

Person with autism or autistic person?  My problem with “person-first language” for autism | The Aspergian | A Neurodivergent Collective I do not HAVE Autism - The Autistic Advocate Identity-First Language | Autistic Self Advocacy Network Why the Autistic Community Prefers Identity First Language – In the Loop About Neurodiversity PERSON-FIRST LANGUAGE IS THE LANGUAGE OF AUTISTIPHOBIC BIGOTS – NEUROQUEER I do not HAVE Autism - The Autistic Advocate 'Autistic person' and 'person with autism' are not one and the same | TheHill

2e Twice Exceptionality

IS MY CHILD 2e or TWICE EXCEPTIONAL-The Ultimate Guide Why So Many Gifted Yet Struggling Students Are Hidden In Plain Sight | MindShift | KQED News Dr. Devon MacEachron Assessment Gifted 2e Dyslexia ADHD What's It Like to be Twice Exceptional? A Different "Twice-Exceptional" Learner | Psychology Today ADD, ADHD, Dyslexia & More: 2e, Twice Exceptional — Gifted, Talented & Creative Adults Success for Gifted and 2e Adults - With Understanding Comes Calm Twice exceptional - Wikipedia The Twice Exceptional Movement: Supporting Bright and Creative Students with Learning Difficulties - Scientific American Blog Network Why So Many Gifted Yet Struggling Students Are Hidden In Plain Sight : NPR Ed : NPR The Twice-Exceptional Adult | Psychology Today Twice-Exceptional Students | National Association for Gifted Children 2e Students: Who Are They and What Do They Need? CCHE | Developing in the Dark: When Giftedness Hides Itself - CCHE 2e Movie Signup | Bright + Quirky 2021 Let

PINNED POST: My top 12 resources to understand autism

It's been really hard to curate this one as there's SO MUCH important information that needs to be shared but this is a start: Why everything you know about autism is wrong | Jac den Houting | TEDxMacquarieUniversity - YouTube Understanding the Spectrum - a comic strip explanation | The Art of Autism "It's a Spectrum" Doesn't Mean What You Think » NeuroClastic AUTISM & THE PATHOLOGY PARADIGM – NEUROQUEER If you Light it up Blue for Autism, you're supporting Autism Speaks and Autism Speaks doesn't support Autism... - The Autistic Advocate The Great Big ABA Opposition Resource List – Stop ABA, Support Autistics PERSON-FIRST LANGUAGE IS THE LANGUAGE OF AUTISTIPHOBIC BIGOTS – NEUROQUEER TPGA: The Problems with Functioning Labels The Lost Girls: How Women With Autism Are Hurt by Sexist Science | by Maddy O | Minds In Tune | Medium An Autistic Identity – The Autistic Advocate NEUROTYPICAL PSYCHOTHERAPISTS & AUTISTIC CLIENTS (relevant for all professi

Differences in communication styles between autistics & neurotypicals

  Ann's Autism Blog: Autistic People. So, new Research. Different social skills, not broken ones. THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM: The Problem With Autistic Communication Is Non-Autistic People: A Conversation With Dr. Catherine Crompton Autistic peer-to-peer information transfer is highly effective - Catherine J Crompton, Danielle Ropar, Claire VM Evans-Williams, Emma G Flynn, Sue Fletcher-Watson, 2020 The Social Language Theory of Neurodivergence — Trauma Geek The double empathy problem University of Kent, Dr Damian Milton - Autism and the Double Empathy Problem - YouTube Noah Sasson on Twitter: "In this study, we examined social cognition, social skill, & social motivation in *both* autistic & NA adults and assessed how well they predicted their social interaction outcomes. Importantly we examined effects relationally not just individually." / Twitter

Autistic burnout

  Autistic Burnout: The Cost of Coping and Passing – Ryan Boren An Autistic Burnout - THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM An Autistic Burnout - The Autistic Advocate 'Autistic Burnout' by Judy Endow, MSW THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM: An Autistic Burnout An Autistic Burnout - The Autistic Advocate TPGA: Autistic Burnout: An Interview With Researcher Dora Raymaker Autistic Burnout: An Often-Misunderstood Element of Autism ‘The Battery’s Dead’: Burnout Looks Different in Autistic Adults - The New York Times Autistic Burnout Is More Than Burnout – Autistic Science Person