Community Resources
There's always more to learn, especially when it comes to giftedness, twice-exceptionality, and neurodivergence.
Whether you want to help a loved one or need support for yourself, Bright Insight Support Network can connect you to resources, communities, and professionals specially equipped to help outliers of outliers.
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Communities
Bloomers: Gifted and 2e Adults on Facebook
A safe and supportive social group linked to the Bright Insight Support Network community page, Bloomers is a space where the gifted adult community can talk openly about whole-person giftedness, twice-exceptionality, neurodiversity, cross-sectionality, and other special interests.
Podcasts
Gifted Unleashed
Do you suffer from Imposter Syndrome? Have you been called too intense, too sensitive, or just too much? ​Hosted by Nadja Cereghetti, the Gifted Unleashed podcast explores giftedness, neurodiversity, and twice-exceptionality (2e) as well as affirmative stories of those supporting the gifted community.
Hopelessly Gifted Podcast
​Hosted by Mark Talaga, The Hopelessly Gifted Podcast helps families understand how to bridge the developmental gaps gifted children face everyday. Through personal, human stories and conversations with insightful specialists, the Hopelessly Gifted Podcast, sometimes irreverently, addresses issues with the gifted that bring parents both pain and joy and offers relief and resources to help find humanness in the extremes.
I Must Be BUG'N Podcast
Do you constantly feel like you're the only one who notices "the emperor has no clothes"? You might be BUGN (Black Underrepresented/Unidentified Gifted and otherwise Neurodivergent).​ Hosted by Sheldon Gay, this is a podcast primarily for Black gifted and otherwise neurodivergent people to learn about and discuss our unique experiences.
inTune Pathways: The Podcast
As the host of a unique and impactful podcast, Kristy Forbes combines her professional experience as an educator with a special interest in Pathological Demand Avoidance with a personal touch. She brings an authentic voice to the dialogue on neurodivergence, drawing from her own experiences as an autistic adult, a parent to neurodivergent children, and a professional in the field.
SMART Wellness Global Podcast
The SMART Wellness Global Podcast explores giftedness, Black wellness, neurodivergence, somatics, leadership, identity, digital overload, and the body cost of high-capacity lives that look successful on paper but feel costly in the body. The podcast supports gifted and high-achieving Black professionals in repairing their nervous systems, reclaiming emotional clarity, and no longer surviving their success.
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Giftedness and Neurodivergence Experts
Lived Experience Educator
Lived Experience Educator, Sonny Jane, draws on personal experiences with mental health, neurodiversity, and recovery to inspire understanding and promote empathy, leveraging advocacy and education to bridge the gap between lived reality and systemic change, encouraging inclusive and compassionate practices.
inTune Pathways with Kristy Forbes
Drawing on their education and lived experience as an autistic person with ADHD and a PDA profile, as well as being a school-avoidant individual who now home educates her own neurodivergent children, Kristy offers unique insight into the challenges faced by PDA individuals and their families.
A nonprofit community health organization that develops and models neurodiversity-affirming systems of care for individuals whose needs are not met by traditional structures. Their work integrates medical care with social connection, education, and employment support, reflecting the understanding that health is shaped not only by clinical intervention but by access, environment, and relational belonging. Programs are designed using principles of universal design and community-informed development, offering multiple pathways for participation and support. Through this integrated approach, All Brains Belong advances a model in which healthcare, community, and identity are not treated as separate domains, but as interdependent elements of well-being.
Resources Related to Gifted
Personality and Identity Development
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Embracing Intensity Community Podcast & Media
a community, podcast, and other media dedicated to help you use your fire without getting burned! Combining real-world experiences and educational knowledge, Embracing Intensity helps you identify and use your neurodivergent strengths, while supporting your challenges.
Organizations That Support Gifted and Neurodivergent Children & Adults
Support for Professionals, Entrepreneurs, and Change-Makers
SMART Wellness
SMART Wellness supports gifted, neurodivergent, high-achieving, and deeply perceptive Black adults, professionals, entrepreneurs, and leaders whose lives work on paper but feel costly in the body. Co-founded by Summer Esquerre and Dr. Reba Peoples, SMART Wellness offers culturally grounded, somatic, strategic, and spiritually informed coaching, advising, community, workshops, retreats, content, and tools.
The work supports nervous system repair, emotional clarity, self-trust, boundaries, Digital Fortitude, and sustainable leadership for people navigating intensity, masking, contorting, overfunctioning, leadership pressure, caregiving strain, digital overload, and the burden of being “the capable one.”
Meghan Bonde w/ Intensity Hub and Team Neurodivergent
​Meghan empowers neurodivergent leaders and mission-driven individuals through speaking, workshops, and coaching. Grounded in Dąbrowski's intensities, her neurodiversity-affirming approach helps professionals align with their values, foster growth, build community, and create sustainable success while amplifying their impact.
Jessica w/ Cyan Counseling
Jessica is a Licensed Professional Counselor and National Certified Career Counselor specializing in helping neurodivergent individuals and HSPs find fulfilling careers. She provides virtual, personalized guidance to align strengths, skills, and interests with satisfying career paths across the U.S.
Emmaly Perks M.Ed. w/ Beyond Gifted Services
​Emmaly Perks M.Ed., Giftedness Consultant, supports multi-potentialite teens and adults with individualized career planning, while also training educators and organizations to serve gifted populations. Though her site highlights educational consulting and social-emotional work through SENG, her upcoming book will debut a signature framework reflecting her primary focus: helping gifted individuals design fulfilling, dynamic careers.
Flow Club
​Flow Club is a virtual neurdiversity-friendly, co-working platform designed to enhance productivity by providing structured, collaborative work sessions where participants share their goals, work alongside others in a focused environment, and receive support from a host who facilitates the session and provides accountability.
Gifted, 2e, and Neurodiversity-Affirming Professionals
Visit their websites and contact information by clicking their bloom.
Self-attunement & somatic coach who also offers gifted mentoring.
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