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> Because they really are both very smart and disabled at the same time. There's a term for exactly this: "twice exceptional"! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T
by cryzinger 10mo ago
> Because they really are both very smart and disabled at the same time.
There's a term for exactly this: "twice exceptional"!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_exceptional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_exceptional
- skeeter2020 10mo agoNot only is this such a cringe term (we may describe poor aptitude in an area as an exception but exceptional?) it's also not accurate. If you want a milquetoast label call them "spikey" to denote the array of dimensions and the variance, or multimodal or similar.
- cryzinger 10mo agoI mean, I didn't invent the term--but the literal definition of "exceptional" doesn't necessarily mean that something is positive, only that it's outside the norm.