TYPE G Personality – Gifted and Geeky
Any comprehensive understanding of personality traits must also include gifted traits. The term gifted refers to an ability to sense, perceive and interpret the world in a quicker and more detailed manner than the bulk of the population. In addition to high intelligence, other qualities of giftedness include sensitivity, perfectionism, entelechy (the ability to intuit and manifest impulses), introversion, and the “autonomous factor,” which is when someone is not interested in other’s opinions about the things they create that are important to them.
In researching the link between giftedness, autoimmunity, autism spectrum disorders, ADHD, and affective disorders, many of the studies showed that giftedness was highly correlated with sensory processing sensitivity, autoimmunity, ADHD, autism spectrum, and affective disorders. This piqued my curiosity and I started looking into the brain networks related to gifted intelligence. Across-the-board it seemed like the three main brain networks involved in gifted tendencies also predispose gifted people to physiological responses including autoimmune disease and sensory processing sensitivity.
For all of the gifted people of the world, as well as for geeks and other highly creative people, we will now call this Type G. This personality type is based on gifted personality traits such as enhanced cognitive capacity, high sensitivity, and rumination. To see if this applies to you, please click the tab below to take the Type G Personality Questionnaire. For more information about Type G, click here. You may also be interested in my latest titles, Gifted Intelligence and The Autoimmune Personality.
