The new loneliness epidemic is ancient history for the highly gifted.

We experience profound loneliness, often starting as young children, simply because our brains work so differently.

We feel our otherness long before we can identify its cause, which we may never accurately do.

Instead, it feels like there is a problem with us. A personality or character defect that makes us hard to understand and that makes it hard for us to relate to others.

(This is different than ASD relational issues, btw. Although diagnostic overlap does occur.)

Some of us have even tried to join in with groups or communities. We might feel an initial uplift. Typically, after some time, we are bored, under-stimulated, or - most annoyingly - we wind up in leader roles for the group we didn’t want but took on simply to make things function better (known as 'the competency curse' 🤣)

Personally, my tactics tended to involve being the butterfly across many groups.

I flitted in and out, not realizing that this was giving me a smidgem of novelty which appeased a different aspect of my giftedness while giving me a superficial sense of connection.

Years ago, when I began hosting small 3-month group programs for highly gifted people, a common theme shared by members was how they only joined in order to learn from me what they knew they needed, but that they dreaded the group aspect.

Except it turned out that the group aspect eventually became one of the best parts.

It was the first time any of these outlier brain peeps had EVER been in a group that was actually DESIGNED FOR THEM.

They’d never even known that was an option!

I discontinued those groups eventually, as part of honoring my own evolution and journey (particularly tied to RYHTHMs, as detailed in Fundamentals of the Highly Gifted Brain), but I continue to hear from those like us that they crave a real community for us.

A place where we can be our weird, wild, moving too fast for most, 8,000 great ideas before breakfast, selves, and be accepted and even SEEN.

Usually, we are like the iceberg, where only the tip is perceived.

But we all, all humans, crave and need to be accurately perceived and received.

ACCURATELY.

Those groups I used to lead cost in the high four figures, which definitely left people out.

What I want now is a global movement.

A movement to restore joy to the world.

And I FIRMLY believe that the highly gifted are the key.

So I’ve been developing this entire new ecosystem of affordable and accessible resources for us.

It started with Fundamentals for the Highly Gifted Brain.

That’s the operating manual for your big, beautiful brain you never imagined possible.

Then came The Outlier Brain site with Tales for Your Outlier Brain and new live workshops. Soon, you’ll see a podcast dedicated to deconstructing giftedness and developing its unique and special joy.

But perhaps the most exciting of all is this:

THE JOYFUL OUTLIER: A Private Community for the Highly Gifted.

With live, virtual (for now, but just wait…) get-togethers and a beautiful, dedicated app space to chat and share AWAY FROM THE DUMPSTER FIRE OF THE ALGORITHM.

Our first gathering is Sat June 6.

Membership will be either $20/week or $79/mo, you choose, with an annual option to save.

BUT FOR JUST A FEW DAYS, I’m offering the chance for you to be among the FIRST.

To be a Founder with me.

To help shape and grow a glorious and wise community of heartfelt brilliance and joy JUST FOR US.

Founding members get 44% off.

Why?

That’s the beauty of being an early adopter. Of being one who leaps when your heart soars at the idea. Of committing to journeying with us for a year.

You’ll be locked in at this rate no matter what increases occur in the future.

You’ll also get special discounts on other up-and-coming Outlier Brain resources (that’s the serious stuff) and shenanigans (cuz I’m all about ensuring the silly stuff keeps us laughing too!).

It’s a membership has its privileges type of thing!

Hop in now and let’s start chatting and plotting our takeover of the world.

Cuz the world needs us! At least as much as we need each other and our own true selves!!

With Infinite Love,

Melanie
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PS: 

Your big brain actually mitigates natural health risk. In fact , a study published in 2017 "demonstrated that in a whole national population year of birth cohort followed over the life course from age 11 to age 79, higher scores on a well validated childhood intelligence test were associated with lower risk of mortality ascribed to coronary heart disease and stroke, cancers related to smoking (particularly lung and stomach), respiratory diseases, digestive diseases, injury, and dementia."

As always, this article was written entirely by one organic, living human (me) without the assistance of AI.

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