Why do gifted adults hate to be categorized?
More often than not, if I suggest to a gifted adult that there are qualities that either all gifted adults share in common or qualities that gifted adults are more likely to have than non-gifted adults, this idea is met with skepticism or outright rejection. I’m thinking it might be due to the gifted tendency to challenge and question EVERYTHING. (See, I did it again, generalized gifted tendencies….but come on, gifted people do question everything even when they’re only doing it in their head.)
I recognize that there is incredible diversity in the gifted adult population but I also know there is commonality. Otherwise, how else do we recognize other gifted adults pretty much instantly? And, if you’ve ever been in a room with gifted people, no matter how diverse, you know there is SOMETHING that is shared in common…in addition to the resistance to being categorized.
So, I wonder, why do gifted people resist the idea that they share things in common with other gifted people?
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