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Giftedness as Other

Giftedness as Other

What We Lose When We Label All Gifted People as Neurodivergent

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Jun 11, 2025
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“Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female.”

- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)

French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir famously argued that “woman” is not born, but made. Rather than serving as a neutral identifier, womanhood is imposed through a set of traits and stereotypes shaped by society, especially by men.

In Beauvoir’s theory…

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