Marc Smolowitz
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first heard Oct 2018
last heard Oct 2022
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I mean a few minutes ago you talked about how you still
encounter people, therapists, and other professionals who've never who've never heard of 2e or twice exceptional, right?
But one thing I do know is that over the arc of set of the seven years of making this movie is that many more people actually do know those concepts.
And that has been an incredible thing to witness and also help support.
And I think the 2020s are going to provide this window of opportunities.
Where we can continue to put these concepts out there, find interesting and creative ways to talk about them, put words to them, put images to them, make a movie about them, release the movie, and support important public discussions.
So we get to have that one week a year, we get to celebrate each other in pride.
But then those other 51 weeks a year, maybe we can push the conversation into other spaces with other kinds of folks where.
It's, you know, it moves it along sort of culturally, socially, politically, ideologically.
Last year, during GTN Awareness Week, we really sort of scaled up this photo sharing project called hashtag my gifted story.
And one of the most moving photos that was submitted was a nine-year-old kid who was twice exceptional who did his little photo for my hashtag my gifted story, which is basically you take a self.
Or your parents take your picture and you hold up a sign that sort of has your zip code on it and five words or phrases that describe gifted, talented, or neurodiverse education or experience in your zip code.
Super local, hyperlocal, right?
What's it like really where you are?
That young person, that nine-year-old, then went to his city council meeting to speak during public comment to try to advance the cause of GTN awareness in his community.
Because it was such an empowering moment for him to make that sign take that photo and go down to his city hall and say something publicly about who he is.
Now, if that's not a winning strategy, if that's not about sort of trying
trauma moving from empowerment to joy, you know, I don't know what is, right?
If we can show up honestly and be authentically who we are, I think we're moving in the right direction as communities.
See, you came out as gifted, coming out as neurodiverse, right?
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