The issue of feeling normal or fitting easily into our environments so that we feel like we belong and are welcome, is a deep and pervasive issue for many highly intelligent, gifted, people of all ages.
I have long been interested in what makes people feel like they don’t belong. This feeling of not quite “getting it” myself led to my actively exploring the topic in graduate school — and the selection of my coursework — and in most of the writing I have done for the last 25 years or so.
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