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Traumatic Intelligence, ADHD, PTSD, TBI and autism, in plain language.
Short, plain-language articles on the overlap between ADHD, PTSD, traumatic brain injury and autism, hypervigilance, executive dysfunction, and what it looks like to move from surviving to living. Written by JS Gilbert, author of The Different Me.
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Traumatic Intelligence is not a diagnosis and not a superpower. It is the heightened awareness, pattern recognition and adaptive thinking a life that did not go smoothly can leave behind. Here is what the term means, and what it does not.
Read the article →Four different conditions with four different causes can still produce the same attention, sleep and sensory symptoms. Here is what ADHD, PTSD, traumatic brain injury and autism share, what they do not, and why the difference changes what actually helps.
Read the article →Scanning a room before you have even sat down gets called anxiety, or paranoia, or being "too much." It is also threat detection that runs early enough to matter. Here is the other reading of hypervigilance, and what to do with it.
Read the article →The book
If these articles sound like the inside of your own head, the book goes further.