So Now What? Affirming Your Twice-Exceptional Queer Child

Adults can better support Twice-Exceptional LGBTQ+ children by offering unconditional acceptance, listening to and using children’s self-described identities, balancing personal research with centering the child’s voice, correcting mistakes briefly without over-apologizing, and seeking queer-led resources or clinicians for additional guidance.

Going Places: A Landscape of Intensities

The author describes being “gifted” as a landscape of intense states — going supernova, going to war, and going to live with the elves — exploring how to manage intense creativity, righteous activism, and necessary withdrawal for reflection and renewal.