"Whatt did he just say?! He said he is profoundly gifted? Tsssss. Ugh, yuck, yuck. So fucking arrogant. What the eff mann!"
The recognition and acknowledgement (by an international giftedness expert) of my ehh 'being' extends to being profoundly gifted (PG). For which there's no Dutch translation yet. But whose IQ is estimated over 180 (Sallin, 2024).  What now? Am I cancelled for good now :)? 

You know what this is... It's simply a part of our raison d'être. 

Look, if you have autism (or are autistic, whatever you want to be called) and therefore have a so-called "neurodivergent" brain, then you also want to be able to say: "My brain processes information differently, and that's why I can encounter challenges, because I have autism." And someone can have varying degrees of autistic brain. That applies to varying degrees of giftedness as well. If you are gifted, you experience different challenges than if you are exceptionally gifted, and different challenges again if you are profoundly gifted.

I've heard other gifted people say, "People who say they're gifted aren't by default." There's a tremendous amount of value judgment and almost shame attached to that statement. However, if you're profoundly gifted or otherwise gifted, you're not superior or anything like that. Quite the contrary... my grades at university were between a 5.5 and a 6, and often only AFTER the resit, because that was usually a 4. (Read: School is esspessially hard) 

For me, nothing felt superior about that. More like whining on the couch with a tub of ice cream about how poorly I fit into the parameters of society. While I so desperately wanted high grades. But my mind didn't recognize the way of thinking that was demanded of me at university.

In mental healthcare, I always said: You can't ask someone with an intellectual disability to speed up. Anyone who demands that of someone with intellectual disabilities is incredibly harmful to that person. 

In the same sentiment, you can't ask me to slow down! 
Because that's incredibly damaging to my mental health. It's not a matter of not wanting to, or feeling too good about myself, or any of that nonsense. It's a matter of NOT being able to. Because if I try, I mentally disintegrate and become very unpleasant to interact with. Just like someone with an intellectual disability who is constantly being asked to do more and faster. That wouldn't do you any good either.