Marie-Lise Schläppy: Are all gifted people also highly sensitive? Part I - Seminar.

ECCO/GBI seminars 2nd series 2012-2013
Are all gifted people also highly sensitive? Using the concept of the "highly sensitive person" to identify and coach undiagnosed gifted adults.
Part I - Seminar.
July 12, 2013 Brussels, VUB

Marie-Lise Schläppy
(Bachelor of social studies (EESP) and Certificate of Advanced Studies from the "Pedagogische Hochschule-Liestal -- Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz.

[lionelnietzsche]

Quick note on the intro/abstract: A very large percentage of gifted people don't _want_ to be "caught" and used for other people's concept of the greater good.
It's also not at all advisable to tell the gifted that they aren't living up to their potential. It's very well known in the psychological study of giftedness that "output" doesn't correlate to capability.
Just because you're capable of being an award winning researcher doesn't mean that you shouldn't decide to be a painter instead. The gifted should never be pressured into thinking that they owe society their brains.

Having said that, I look forward to the rest of the talk. :)

[rafaelmoro]

I love how you have sensibility and interest to identity that children to lead them to bloom. Usually what grow taller are cut faster.

[マイケル-vt]

She's describing me and I could cry 😭 I appreciate this angel and this being here for me to have discovered. Thank you!! Bless all you academics!

[lise]

regarding positive disintegration in the sample she tested, she concluded "being gifted doesn't seem to be linked with positive disintegration" but you have to remember: members of Mensa are people who sought the Mensa. Most of them end up in the Mensa because they went through positive disintegration already and came out of it through finding out they were gifted, accepting it, and seeking their peers at the Mensa.
Only people who KNOW they are gifted get to the Mensa, as you have to go through the IQ test to be a member. If you know you're gifted, you've already gone through the shock of finding it out and are either still coming to terms with it or have adjusted to it already (not true for everyone, but still..).

[saminarose]

Perhaps extremely gifted children of families with disfunction use all their senses to fix things. This excessive use of senses strengthens them and they become highly sensitive. Just a theory!

[HBudianu]

Interesting video. I must add that another study has found that many geni (IQ of over 140) also have autism, more precisely high functioning autism or Aspergers. People with autism can have difficulty with putting themselves into other people's shoes whereas HSP's get themselves into situations way to deep due to excessive empathy. Those with high functioning autism can have certain intense interests which can give them tunnel vision and strong opinions that they are right whereas HSP's would look for common ground to find peace. Yet both groups can be overwhelmed easily (sensory overload) and pick up on crucial information. Therefore I don't think all gifted people are HSP's necessarily as the biggest HSP trait is argued to be intense empathy. I am both myself, but I know people smarter than me (higher IQ) with Aspergers who have a different way of experiencing life. A high Intelligence Quotient does not guarantee a high Emotional Quotient of the same degree although I am sure though that there is a good percentage of smarties that are HSP's as giftedness requires qualities such as alertness and being detail oriented.

[rubyglasspool]

Until a few months ago, I was that person that wouldn’t even pick up a Gifted book. I only discovered it because of the suggestion of a friend that launched me into researching it and, astoundingly seeing myself in it. I was always ‘stupid’ at school, or so I thought, but now I think it was giving up due to boredom. I decided to investigate further and take a formal IQ test. I chuckled as I did it, thinking of course it’d come out as pretty average. It came back as 135. I still do not believe it and at age 40, I’m having to integrate this whole new discovery about who I am into someone who has supposedly never been ‘Gifted’!

[faza]

Thank you. Most non-HSPs will be resistant to this information; Preferring judgement & rejecting of HSPs...especially learning-challenged family members.
Assigned myself the label : ET call home.

[DILEEPPHYSICIST]

Beautiful and cool lecture... Thank you!

[bigfishartwire]

You know what was stupid? Putting the slides in front of the actual ones where she was indicating points.

[malton]

i need help i don't know how too deal with it.

[utubit]

the title implies that all highly sensitive people are gifted.  Does she actually answer this in the video? 

[MikeFuller-okok]

I have a supervised Mensa IQ in the 'High Average' range and In some ways I am very sensitive.

[rubyglasspool]

Whichever way you look at it, if you have high sensitivities, or you have over excitability’s it’s a special need, and, by the sounds of it, hugely similar special needs, so why is it so relevant to ask if gifted people are highly sensitive or if hsp’s are gifted?

[scottjackson]

If “highly sensitive” means easily moved to tears or prone to world weariness then not all highly gifted people are sensitive.

[DaveWard-xcvd]

Mights, maybes and anecdotes.

Is this what passes for research these days?

[logondash]

There is no correlation between giftedness and personality traits. I see no evidence here to contradict this.

[PerteTotale]

a very interesting topic being after 8-9 min smeared by a hypothetical distribution of 80-20 which is the Pareto distribution.
it is not applied correctly here. so is now all top 20 gifted? How do you fit that with e.g. correlation money earned per year - IQ's?
if you don't understand statistics, do not use them.
If you can follow the blog updates and sc. files of Nicolas Nissam Taleb, which he shares freely on his twitter account, than maybe you are up to par.
if u don't really understand exact sciences: don't walk in it's areas as it needs talent and endurance

[HoratioTalbot_a]

This woman is a terrible speaker . Shleppy really needs to take some public speaking lessons. pHd or no she's a boring speaker

[paradigmnnf]

What kind of messy presentation is this? Double slides and the main one is hiding. I bet the presenter is NOT even aware of this! Highly irresponsible!!