Type G

TYPE G Personality – Gifted and Geeky

Any comprehensive understanding of personality traits, must also include gifted traits. The term gifted refers to an ability to sense, perceive and interpret the world in a quicker and more detailed manner than the bulk of the population. In addition to high intelligence, other qualities of giftedness include sensitivity, perfectionism, entelechy (the ability to intuit and manifest impulses), introversion and the “autonomous factor,” which is when someone is not interested in other’s opinions about the things they create that are important to them.

In researching the connection and link between giftedness, autoimmunity, autism spectrum disorders, ADHD and affective disorders, many the studies showed that giftedness was related to sensory processing sensitivity, autoimmunity, ADHD, autism spectrum and affective disorders. This piqued my curiosity and I started looking into the brain networks related to gifted intelligence.

Across-the-board it seemed like the three main brain networks involved in gifted tendencies also predispose gifted people to physiological responses including autoimmune disease and sensory processing sensitivity. This personality type is based on gifted personality traits such as enhanced cognitive capacity, high sensitivity and rumination. For all of the gifted people of the world, as well as for geeks and other highly creative people, we can now call this Type G.