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A Sort of Highly-Gifted One

Alban Bourdy

Publisher: Editions Dedicaces

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Summary

"A sort of highly-gifted one" is an autobiographical testimony that narrates all my life, my course of "highly-gifted" (diagnosed in early childhood). 
"A sort of highly-gifted one" because I am a kind of highly-gifted, representative and at the same time singular. 
Everything is told under the psychological aspect, without self-censorship, always with the subjective look of who I was at each moment. I have conceived this book as a long version of the lectures that I give regularly, like in the opening of the "Surdouessence" symposias that I organize. Surdouessence is also an association that I created for the accompaniment of the highly-gifted people.
Available since: 07/22/2018.

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