Oh good a psychology undergrad has published their "professional" opinion based on sophomore text books, a couple 200 level classes and TV shows.
And the "Veredict" was a real wowsa event. Those lying cheaters, Get the rope.....
Why do you guys believe that there can exist computer whizzes, but not psychology whizzes?
That is something that always escaped my understanding.
I am a psychology nerd who's been particularly gifted (or cursed).
Also, I know it might sound as bragging but it is the true: I don't need to study the textbooks in college because I studied them all before hand when I was younger. I don't need to study them, I just "get it", I "feel it" and I know it by heart. I always go beyond the scope of the class because undegraduate college is simply too basic for me. Sometimes I know more than the graduate students who are teaching us in class. I am an undergraduate, but I already have my proposed doctoral thesis being reviewed by my professors. They also thought I was being pretentious, now they acknowledge it is quite creative and original. The provost told me that if my ambition is successful, I would deserve a Nobel prize.
When you guys were reading your first pages of computer magazines and programming your first lines of Basic, I was doing a sociological analysis of my class for the lulz (even before I knew the term "sociology"), reading psychology papers and in elementary school I was stealing and reading the parenting books my parents used to buy to try to understand me!
As time passed I even developed my own version of cognitive psychology and sociology by intuition alone, and the first day I grabbed a textbook that talked about it, I was like "damn, so everything I used to do
actually had a name!".
I always had a keen sense of observation and my deductive skills got even more refined when I first learned about "Fermi Problems" when I was around 13 years old, which allowed me to do quick accurate approximations of everything in non-obvious ways: it introduced me to the world of lateral thinking.
Maybe it is my nature, or maybe it is caused from all this nurture I got through self-education, but I can immediately empathize with any human being, no matter how rebellious, troll, elder, open minded or squared, and it is thought to be one of the main characteristics to actually "feel" deceptions accurately (emotion based deceptions, that is)
The discovery of Ekman and O'Sullivan allowed me to calibrate even better my perception, and I assure you that I knew about Ekman
a decade ago before the series Lie To Me came to Fox. For me, it was really surprising to see his life on screen.
I have even communicated with Prof. O'Sullivan before she passed away last year, and she connected me with one of her closest students who was in charge of the Diogenes Project.
So, well, there you have it.
What happened to you in world of computers, it happened to me in the intricate world of the human mind.
The best news is, I am not alone. There are thousands of gifted and talented people in the world. You might be one, whoever you are.
If you were diagnosed or suspected having ADD or ADHD, you might be misdiagnosed.
Giftedness has very very similar symptoms to ADD, but with only one
key difference: if you are a gifted you CAN concentrate on whatever subject
that interests you. It doesn't have to be a subject in school, it could be about sports or motorcycles, anything.
You might have difficulty focusing in class or in anything that you don't care, but if it interests you you ace it.
On the other hand, people with ADD/ADHD CAN NOT CONCENTRATE ON ANYTHING.
Also, gifted kids usually get along with people much older than them, and usually don't get along with the kids of their same age.
Giftedness doesn't mean being a genius, it means to be intellectually more mature, deep and/or curious than the kids of your age.
Most of the times it causes emotional stress to the kids because emotionally they are still immature, when intellectually they are way ahead of their age (it's called asynchronous development).
And let me clarify: I am not talking about Indigo kids, that is newage bullshit. I am talking about the psychological definition of giftedness.
If you feel identified (I bet that the great majority here does), you might be gifted. The problem: not many psychologists are really trained to identify them, that's why Ritalin is being horribly overmedicated and horribly misdiagnosed.
Well, I better stop my rant here.
I want to start reading the new book I got from Amazon: "Security Analysis" by Graham and Dodd.
Why?, why not? For the lulz.
Sayonara!
