Gifted Development Center

01/13/2026

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Email from Gifted Development Center Reflect on the Year Ahead - What Will You Create with Your Gift?   DONATE Dear Friend, As we welcome the New Year, we want to begin with our sincere thanks. Your g

01/13/2026

A Child’s Voice – After School, I Need You to Know
The Child Who Masks

Earlier today I shared the swan model.

The one that looks calm on the surface, gliding through the school day — while underneath, it’s paddling fast just to stay afloat.

This is that same child, speaking now.

When I come out of school, I’m not being “dramatic”.
I’m not suddenly difficult.
I’m not undoing all the good behaviour you were told about.

I’ve been holding it together all day.

I’ve pushed feelings down so I didn’t stand out.
I’ve copied others so I could fit in.
I’ve kept my stims small and hidden.
I’ve smiled when I didn’t feel OK.
I’ve tried to remember every rule so no one got cross.
I’ve ignored what felt too loud, too bright, too much.

And by the time I reach you, there’s nothing left in the tank.

What looks like defiance, tears, shutdown, or anger after school is often exhaustion from masking.

If this feels familiar, you’re not alone — and neither is your child.

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My Masking Toolkit supports parents and educators to understand masking, recognise the hidden load, and reduce the pressure children carry just to be accepted. Link in comments below ⬇️ or via Linktree Shop in Bio.

01/13/2026

01/13/2026

Acceleration expert Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik, PhD, assures parents that kids who move ahead in school (such as by skipping grades) don't struggle socially because of the adjustment.

01/07/2026

01/07/2026

☀️Davidson Summer Programs are a unique benefit of being part of the Davidson Young Scholars Program, offering students the chance to explore advanced topics, connect with peers, and engage in meaningful learning experiences during the summer.

These programs are designed specifically for Young Scholars and reflect the depth, curiosity, and community that define the program year-round.

If your student is a Young Scholar, summer is another way to continue learning and connection beyond the academic year.

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12/19/2025

🎁 The best gift you can give a child is being truly understood. 🎁

The holiday season often brings out high energy, deep emotions, and vivid imaginations in our kids. If you’ve ever wondered why your child experiences the world so intensely, the Overexcitability Questionnaire-Two for Children (OEQ-IIC) is the perfect "gift" for your family library this year.

For just $25.00, this manual gives you a research-backed way to assess overexcitabilities in children ages 6 to 11. It’s easy to administer and score, helping you move into the New Year with a clearer roadmap for supporting your child’s unique spark. ✨

Give yourself the tool to help them thrive.

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This manual describes the development, testing, and scoring of a questionnaire to assess overexcitability in children ages 6 to 11—Overexcitability Questionnaire-Two for Children (OEQIIC). The OEQ-IIC is a research instrument that is easy to administer and score.

12/17/2025

12/17/2025

12/12/2025

GIFTEDNESS THROUGH THE LENS OF...

Depth Psychology
A psyche with too many layers to stay on the surface; an unconscious that presses upward with unusual intensity

Stoicism
A temperament stretched by perception, learning restraint as its form of wisdom

Universalism
A human expression of a wider, organizing intelligence seeking coherence through one individual

Transpersonal Psychology
A consciousness whose edges are porous enough to touch the larger field, yet distinct enough to translate it

Panpsychism
Matter thinking through a particularly vivid node

Animism
A person whose inner world is crowded with living presences, each demanding relation

Non-dualism
A local aperture where awareness folds back on itself with unusual clarity

Buddhism
A mind with heightened sensitivity to dukkha and interdependence, pulled instinctively toward insight

Existentialism
A heightened awareness of freedom and responsibility that arrives too early, before one knows what to do with it

Phenomenology
A perceiver whose experience of the world is unusually textured, immediate and difficult to bracket

Systems Theory
A node that naturally maps the whole system while others feel only their part

Process Philosophy
A being whose becoming moves faster than the structures meant to contain it

Mythology
A life shaped by oversized tests, mentors and thresholds - an inner hero who never fully sleeps

Quantum Philosophy
A consciousness that behaves like a probability cloud, with multiple potentials active at once

Hermeticism
A microcosm that intuits the patterns of the macrocosm with uncanny ease

Gnosticism
A carrier of hidden insight who both suffers and awakens by it

Archetypal Astrology
A chart that behaves like a lightning rod for intensities and potentials beyond the ordinary bandwidth

Phenomenological Sociology
A self who notices the unspoken agreements of culture too sharply to ever fully relax inside them

Complexity Science
A mind that self-organizes beyond the scale of its environment

Ecology
A psyche sensitive to interdependence and the ripples of action across systems

These are exploratory definitions meant for reflection and dialogue - not definitive statements about how any philosophical, spiritual or scientific lens defines giftedness, nor claims to Truth with a capital “T.”

How does this multi-focal view of giftedness resonate with you? What other lenses might you bring to the conversation?

12/12/2025

Anyone else out there relate to this!?!

True story of a gifted multipotentialite 😅

If you're new to the term: a gifted multipotentialite is a highly intelligent person with a broad range of interests, talents and creative pursuits. We thrive on variety, learning and connecting ideas across different fields - which means we often end up feeling unfulfilled by single-track, specialist careers.

We seek roles that allow for exploration, creativity and constant growth, much like historical "Renaissance people" or "polymaths" who pursued simultaneous passions in the sciences, arts and a plethora of other fields.

It's of course not just about our work, but also about our hobbies, relationships and personal growth. We operate on multiple "passion frequencies" at once, with each frequency contributing to the "symphony" of our life.

If we try to tone down or tune out any of our passion frequencies, as the world will tell us to do sometimes to better fit in or follow expectations, we and the world around us lose out on some of the most beautiful harmonies and dissonances of our unique "life's music".

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SOME GREAT RESOURCES ON THIS:

The Passionate Person: Are You a Multipotentialite?, by Office Ninjas: https://officeninjas.com/passionate-person-multipotentialite/

Questions for a Gifted Multipotentialite, by Marion Kee: https://intergifted.com/questions-gifted-multipotentialite/

Sarabeth Berk's work on Hybrid Careers (great podcast episode with Eggshell Therapy and Coaching by Imi Lo): https://eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2024/02/20/sarabeth/

The Puttylike Community, with Emily Wapnik: https://puttylike.com/

Our upcoming Gifted Multipotentialites Course, with Marion Kee (starting January 2026): https://intergifted.com/gifted-multipotentialites-course-2026/