Notes
Essays on giftedness, ADHD and twice-exceptionality, and on the school systems that read uneven performance as limited potential. Written between teaching sessions rather than for an algorithm.
High potential & school
Fast understanding does not automatically produce persistence, organisation, or a willingness to tolerate repetition. Underchallenge can hide missing learning skills until the work finally becomes difficult.
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ADHD & giftedness
A gifted student can be bored, have ADHD, or experience both at once. The useful distinction comes from patterns across tasks and contexts, not from one dramatic classroom moment.
4 min read
Twice-exceptionality
Giftedness and a neurodevelopmental difficulty do not simply sit side by side. They change how each other appears, and can leave a student invisible to both support and enrichment systems.
4 min read
Twice-exceptionality
Compensation can keep results acceptable while the underlying difficulty goes unaddressed. Over time the system produces the very evidence it later uses to justify its conclusion.
4 min read
Behind the work
A late ADHD diagnosis, years of teaching, and a group of statistics students in Montréal who made the pattern impossible to ignore.
4 min read
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