By: Paul Anderson

Paul Anderson — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:05:37 +0000

First of all, I am a highly gifted 70yo with lifelong learning challenges, neither of which were ever formally identified. This post is written by a psychologist who admits that she is not herself gifted. I saw her for a consult in 2017 in duress for being isolated (again) during the holidays, and was excited to find that she was local and said all the right things in articles like this. Two days after the consult, she informally she would not take me as a client because she was reducing her clientele so she could write more and that I should have my depression addressed. She made two suggestions of local therapists, neither of whom had any clue about giftedness. I spent 4 years with one – feeling more and more isolated when I left. I believe working with the gifted is something you have to either be yourself or have a special aspect of your nature that comprehends that experience. Gail Post appeared to have it, but when she refused me as a client “to write more”, to continued my lifelong experience of feeling outside of everything, and my difficulties and needs unimportant. That has never changed in the eight years since.

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By: Paul Anderson