Julie Skolnick is the Founder of With Understanding Comes Calm, LLC, through which she passionately guides parents of gifted and distractible children, mentors 2e adults, trains teachers on how to understand and address 2e strengths and struggles.

Julie serves as Secretary to the Maryland Superintendent’s Gifted and Talented Advisory Council and is an advisor for “The G Word” film. Julie is the SENG Maryland liaison, a SENG Model Parent Group trained facilitator and on the Simultaneous Supports committee for the National Association for Gifted Children.

More about Julie in episode 14

TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:

• It is important for 2e adults to know who they are, to know their needs of strengths and weaknesses.
• Until now, very few research has been done on this population of twice-exceptional adults.
• Twice-exceptional (2e) stands for gifted + a learning difference or learning disability such as Autism, ADHD, dyslexia, etc.
• Gifted and 2e adults often resist.
• Giftedness can be described as heightened awareness.
• Let’s Talk 2e adults’ conference is the first of it’s kind & completely free for the first 24 hours on November 1st, 2021 - you can purchase access forever, use my affiliate link
• Talking about 2e is all about positive re-framing! 
• If you are a gifted or 2e adult,  work with someone who understands giftedness in addition to anything else you might be experience (anxiety, trauma, depression, autism, ADHD, dyslexia, etc.)
• Imposter Syndrome is self doubt and is tied to perfectionism & gifted underachievement.
• To overcome gifted perfectionism understand that you care and give yourself permission to make mistakes, it is how we learn and grow.
• It’s important to overcome your imposter syndrome so that you can live your life without regrets!

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