Julie Skolnick is the Founder of With Understanding Comes Calm, LLC, through which she 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, is an advisor for “The G Word” film. She is the SENG Maryland liaison, a SENG Model Parent Group (SMPG) trained facilitator and on the Simultaneous Supports committee for the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC). Julie is also an invited member of the Gifted Homeschoolers Forum Professional Membership Committee.

Julie is also the mother of three twice exceptional children.

TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:

• Giftedness is much more than the intelligence part, it is essentially heightened awareness
• 2e (Twice Exceptional) means gifted + a learning disability / difference
• 2e kids need to know about their neurology to understand who they are and to thrive in social settings
• Only when you understand yourself, you can understand various situations
• Gifted people do best when they are with gifted people
• 2e does not cancel itself out: The strength may mask the challenge and the challenge might mask the strength
• With understanding comes calm!
• Being 2e is not a shortcoming, look at it as a Superpower
• Executive Functioning difficulties are challenges for example with processing speed, working memory, organisational skills
• ADHD & giftedness can look similar in therms of executive functioning
• Overexcitability can be in one or more of the following areas: intellectual, emotional, imagination, sensual, (sensory) and psychomotor
• Gifted people have bigger antennas so there is more data the gifted brain has to crunch through
• Perfectionism, Imposter Syndrome and Gifted Underachievers are all part of the gifted profile
• Start from your strength! Use a strength based approach. Do what you love, not focusing on what is hard for you. If you don’t start with what you love, you will never get to do it! You got to focus on your strength first!
• You do not have to watch the News! Protect your sensitive self. These are crazy times and you are allowed to protect yourself from the negative News. Instead, do something kind for someone else and do something kind for yourself. 

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2e resources

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