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Gloria Jensen: How did it change your life to know you were gifted?

Guillaume Macczak: (…) It really made me wonder how others functioned. To try to understand what was different.

Gloria Jensen: What you allow yourself since then?

Guillaume Macczak: Clearly to follow my intuition more and to say to myself that the fact of arriving more quickly at a conclusion is not due to laxity.

Gloria Jensen: How did it change your life to know that?

Audrey Bouquet: (…) I now have a life that reflects me. I was 40 years in search mode. I knew that something was wrong and I attributed my discrepancy with others as pathological. Knowledge makes non-standard characteristics “normal”. Giftedness is not a disease and that changes everything! Now when someone tells me I’m weird, I thank them for the compliment.

Gloria Jensen: The mistake not to make for a gifted person?

Pierre Stanghellini: Trying to behave like a normal person. And finally to ape an attitude in order to blend in with the mass. In the short term this can help, in the long term it is deadly.

Gloria Jensen: How long have you known you were gifted?

Ema Perey: (…) Since always unconsciously. We all know it inside, unconsciously.

Gloria Jensen: What have you allowed yourself since then?

Ema Perey: To become who I am.

Gloria Jensen: How has it changed your life to know you are gifted?

Robert: I have never lived it better than since I accepted it. Understanding for me is an essential thing. Accepting my giftedness has made me understand so many things. I have gained 20 years of psychoanalysis that I would never do.

Gloria Jensen: What would you like to say to people who are not gifted?

Aliénor Rouffet: That we all have an immense potential, active or dormant, no matter in which box it is placed or what stamp is put on it. I don’t believe that the stamp of an IQ number determines the potential of people.

Gloria Jensen: A representation that you want to question?

Thibault: The image of superiority in the term that leads people to revolt more than anything else.

Gloria Jensen: How has it changed your life?

Fanny Vella: “One of the most obvious things is that I don’t struggle anymore to fit into a mold that doesn’t suit me, I accept more and more my alien side even if it’s not easy every day to mourn the one I thought I was to leave more space for the one I really am.”

Gloria Jensen: a Gifted professional advice?

Hervé Ferro: “Make sure that you do something that corresponds not only to your aspirations but also to your talents. Sooner or later, these subjects will come to torment you if they do not.

Gloria Jensen: What does being gifted mean to you?

Catherine Régnier: If we take Dabrowski’s approach that I like, the gifted are more prone to 5 forms of overexcitabilities: motor, sensory, emotional, intellectual and imaginative. Whether it is a question of frequency, duration and/or intensity.

Gloria Jensen: What phases did you go through with your Giftedness?

José Colleatte: The way I perceive things, seen from today, is a permanent quest for what is true, for THE truth, before initiating a path towards the very questioning of the truth (…).

Gloria Jensen: What would you like to highlight about giftedness?

Cévany: There are several forms of giftedness, the complex ones and the laminar ones. And it is possible to be Gifted without being highly sensitive. And despite these different characteristics we are all really different.

Gloria Jensen: What is a common misconception about Giftedness?

Alexis Crépel: The gifted person who succeeds in everything, very quickly and is capable of great feats. This may be true for some but it is not the case for all, far from it, and unfortunately it often generates a lot of complexes and self-rejection, both for gifted people who discover themselves and for gifted people who were going to discover this aspect and who will lose years by deviating from their own encounter.

Gloria Jensen: If you could choose, would you be gifted?

Lara Smith: Yes. When I was little, I thought “how great must it be to be gifted!!!” without ever realizing that I was!

Gloria Jensen: What phases have you gone through since the discovery of your giftedness?

Alonso Rivas: Learning to be different and accepting the difference.

Gloria Jensen: What advice do you have for a gifted person?

Cécile Bost: Remember that the brain is not disconnected from the body: preserve the body. Know how to rest, decompress… which is not always to the taste of the brain!

Gloria Jensen: How did it change your life to know you were gifted?

Christian Charlier: At the same time everything, the relationship to myself, to others, to the organization and at the same time the fact of learning it does not change your life. You just continue it, with new data. It’s up to us to decide what we want to do with it all. So don’t resign the day after the IQ test results.

Gloria Jensen: What do you want to tell gifted people?

Sophie Baron: I want to tell them that they are not alone. I also want to tell them: trust yourself, and above all, cherish your intensity, let it express itself, and marvel, always!

Gloria Jensen: When you meet another gifted person, do you recognize them? By what?

Fabrice Micheau: Gaze, processing speed, language and thought structure, impatience, reflection, “tree structure thinking”, humour, social maladjustment or adaptation, magnetic resonance…