For a long time, I thought I was broken.

I was too sensitive. Too intense. Too driven.
I didn’t fit in with my family. I didn’t think like my peers.
People asked if I was adopted—I wondered the same.

And underneath it all was one painful question:
What’s wrong with me?

It wasn’t until I discovered the research on gifted adults that things finally started to make sense.

Psychologist Mary-Elaine Jacobsen suggests in her book, The Gifted Adult, that giftedness isn’t just about intelligence—it’s a neurobiological difference. A form of advanced wiring.

She even goes a step further and calls it what it is: a mutation.
An evolutionary adaptation.

That word—mutation—might sound harsh. But for me, it was a relief.
Because suddenly, there was language for what I’d always felt.

And here’s what really shifted my perspective:
We’re not designed beings. We’re evolving ones.
And some of us—those wired with more intensity, depth, and drive—are simply earlier expressions of what the human species is becoming.

If you’ve ever felt out of place —
this isn’t proof that something’s wrong.
It might be the clearest sign yet that something’s right.

If you haven’t read Jacobsen’s book, I highly recommend it.