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The One's for the Burnt Out Gifted Kids

Catie and Erik's Infinite Quest: An ADHD Adventure

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The Effects of Intellectually Gifted on ADHD

Giftedness is something that like, and then we get into the questions like, what is gifted? How are you gifted? Whatever. Obviously, super nebulous. But there's some unifying things in terms of like, academic in some ways, academic success but also like they talked about like creativity, problem solving, creative thinking, adaptability, self motivation,. That kind of falls into this like, you know, gifted kid. Pile of stuff. It can dramatically inform how their ADHD shows up. Simply being intellectually gifted for some kids can mimic the symptoms of ADHD and can lead to either a misdiagnosis or a mis Diagnosis. So very similar.

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