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A non-psychologist's guide to channeling your sensitivity-to-the-world into the thing that makes you awesome − not the thing that gets in your way.

This guide is part 2/2! Check out part 1 here. I recently wrote about my ADHD and ‘giftedness’ diagnoses and how I think that a lot of diagnoses boil down to the following two questions: “How sensitive are you to the world around you?” “Do you have the environments and tools to channel this sensitivity productively?” When nerds like me have intense feelings, they (we) love to intellectualize and hyperanalyze them — this is usually a trap. Whether or not you can pinpoint what you’re struggling with, today we’re going to move past the ‘problem identification’ phase and fast forward into…

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