{"id":344683,"date":"2025-04-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/the-effects-of-discovering-their-gifted-profile-as-adults\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:00:00","slug":"the-effects-of-discovering-their-gifted-profile-as-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/the-effects-of-discovering-their-gifted-profile-as-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"The Effects of Discovering Their Gifted Profile as Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Gifted Profile (High Intellectual Potential, or HPI)<\/strong> is characterised by a different cognitive functioning that leads a person, among other things, to process information more quickly. Faced with such <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dys-positif.fr\/les-differentes-formes-de-haut-potentiel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">multiple intelligence<\/a>, the signs are not necessarily easy to identify, even though certain characteristics do emerge. Popularised by the French series &#8220;HPI&#8221; starring Audrey Fleurot, <strong>some people, now adults, have finally been able to put a name to their condition<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n<h2>The characteristic signs of a gifted profile<\/h2>\n<p>Excelling in areas that are not always recognised by today&#8217;s education system, identifying a gifted person is no easy task. And, contrary to popular belief, their journey is not always smooth \u2014 often because of <strong>overwhelming intellectual activity<\/strong>, an <strong>atypical way of thinking<\/strong> and <strong>heightened sensitivity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Other characteristic signs of giftedness include <strong>a thirst for and ease with learning<\/strong>, <strong>self-teaching<\/strong>, marked <strong>perfectionism<\/strong>, a <strong>wide range of interests<\/strong>, a strong <strong>creative imagination<\/strong>, a <strong>sense of humour<\/strong>, <strong>open-mindedness<\/strong>, and more.<\/p>\n<h2>The day everything becomes clear\u2026<\/h2>\n<p><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if I especially like Audrey Fleurot; but I can say she&#8217;s become a bit like family to me. Let&#8217;s say she changed my life\u2026&#8221;<\/em> says Olivia Bokhobza<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>. At 30, the young woman <strong>considers herself gifted entirely by chance<\/strong>. While watching the series with Audrey Fleurot, she recognises aspects of her own personality and sees the actress as a potential &#8220;friend&#8221;\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Through the lens of this new perspective, she <strong>better understands certain past events<\/strong>, such as her professional life, marked by this unchanging cycle: <em>&#8220;attraction, disillusionment, overthinking and boredom.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A view shared by Virginie Cotel, now a coach and therapist for highly sensitive, gifted and multipotential people: she <strong>experiences this perspective <em>&#8220;like opening a door onto a whole new world&#8221;<\/em><a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a><\/strong>. Hungry for information, she looks for every matching clue that might place her among the 2.5% of the French population with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dys-positif.fr\/hpi-quest-ce-que-le-quotient-intellectuel-qi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IQ above 130<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<h2>A liberating gifted diagnosis, even in adulthood<\/h2>\n<p>Once the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dys-positif.fr\/quels-sont-les-tests-pour-mesurer-un-haut-potentiel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tests were taken<\/a>, Virginie Cotel found herself reading the results in a fog, struggling to take in the reality: <strong>she is gifted<\/strong>! But this trait <strong>struggled to make sense in her everyday life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It would take her <strong>2 years<\/strong> to turn the diagnosis into a <strong>real revelation<\/strong>: <em>&#8220;It gave me the keys, a framework for understanding my identity, my relationship with others, the meaning I want to give my life, and how I can bring that need for meaning into my everyday life,&#8221;<\/em> she says today.<\/p>\n<p>For Olivia Bokhobza, the realisation was much the same: <strong>thanks to the diagnosis, she learned to calibrate all her character traits<\/strong> so as to use them wisely. While she doesn&#8217;t say &#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m gifted&#8221; to everyone she meets, she doesn&#8217;t hesitate to explain it if one of her behaviours is misunderstood.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If, like Olivia and Virginie, you suspect you may be gifted, do not hesitate to reach out to a <a href=\"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/distance-psychology\/\">psychologist<\/a> to help make sense of your behaviour and emotions: as these accounts show, a <strong>diagnosis is, in every case, extremely liberating<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Source: https:\/\/www.psychologies.com\/moi\/se-connaitre\/temoignage-diagnostiquee-HPI-Audrey-Fleurot<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> Source: https:\/\/terresatypiques.com\/blog\/comment-jai-decouvert-que-jetais-surdouee\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gifted Profile (High Intellectual Potential, or HPI) is characterised  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":344684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}