Notes
Essays on ability, work and the wider picture—without turning one familiar experience into a catch-all explanation.
The essays begin with situations many people recognise. They look at why similar experiences can have different causes.
Learning a job quickly is not the same as finding work that fits. This essay looks at learning, complexity, responsibility and organisational friction—and why recurring boredom may be more than a problem with motivation.
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Adaptability can keep you performing well in a role that asks too much of you in the wrong ways. This essay looks at the signs of a hidden mismatch, and why coping well does not prove that the situation is right.
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Not every question calls for formal assessment. Where assessment would be useful, different possible explanations need to be considered carefully.
Edge of the Curve does not provide psychological or cognitive assessment. These German-language sources offer a reliable place to begin.
A Germany-wide directory of qualified psychologists with particular experience in assessing cognitive ability and potential in adults.
Open source ↗Zentrales ADHS-NetzWhat a proper assessment involves, who can carry it out and why a questionnaire on its own is not a diagnosis.
Open source ↗Diagnostic orientationHigh cognitive ability and ADHD can look similar in some respects and may also occur together. Careful professional assessment matters more than a quick label.
Open source ↗Four books offering different perspectives on high cognitive ability in adulthood, from working lives to diagnostic overlap.
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Accounts of adult lives and careers, varied in perspective and grounded in lived experience.
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An accessible introduction to perception, intensity and the experience of high cognitive ability.
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One hundred life stories across different family, professional and social settings.
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A more clinical account of overlap, misdiagnosis and dual diagnosis.
The Working Together page explains how the process works and what to know before getting in touch.
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