Dr. Michael Postma

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 086a: Dr. Michael Postma of SENG on the Plight of Gifted and 2e Kids · 1 Jul 2022 podcast

um really opened my eyes and really pushed me into that direction of of writing and and speaking and uh

And b saying

has a personal aspect in that it's that really hits that social emotional foundation, which I think is actually the key to academic growth and uh academic you know, achieving that potential.

Uh we often ignore that piece in our schools and it is detrimental that we only teach to the academic, we have to teach to the whole person.

So that's a little bit of background.

Um, obviously it's much more complicated than that, but that is where we are right now.

That's a actually a good question because you're right.

Those weren't really available conditions uh when we were growing up.

I went to school in the seventies and high school in the eighties.

And uh, you know, we just adapted, we coped.

Um one one of the things that saved me and I talk about in the book.

having parachutes, having uh connections and I had some a couple of good friends that kind of stuck by me.

But the other thing I have th which is fairly rare with two weeks children is I was extremely athletic.

And that seemed to help me kind of navigate the the social networking.

I was never good at it.

I'm not saying that, but it it helped be ac be accepted.

And at school, um, you know, I was really, really strong in some areas.

I you know, I d I really didn't have to do much homework, didn't have to study much, you know, just come

So I managed to get through school but

Um the one area I really struggled with, especially with the A D D is um and with typical with choice exceptional kids in general, is that slower processing speed, meaning it taking time to really recall

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