2e person looking for help, connection, resources, and a path to proper cognitive assessment
Hey,
I'm a 3rd-year physics undergrad, international student, and I've been grinding through a genuinely brutal stretch — immigration stress, financial pressure, academic overload, and chronic sleep deprivation that's been running for months.
I self-identify as twice-exceptional. High conceptual ceiling, significant executive output gap. The kind of brain that solves things nobody asked me to solve and then misses the deadline for the thing I was supposed to do.
The problem: I've never had a proper cognitive assessment. No WAIS-IV, no documented profile, nothing official. And without that, every institutional system I touch misreads me — either as not trying hard enough, or right now, as something I'm not.
Psychiatry under DSM suspects it as the symptoms of Psychosis, while I struggle to make them understand about 2e but they respond that there is no study in the field of psychiatry as such as 2e-cognitive profile. I'm not looking for validation. I'm looking for:
- Anyone who's navigated getting a real 2e assessment (especially WAIS-IV with GAI + subtest scores)
- Doctors or psychologists who actually understand 2e vs. misdiagnosis
- Resources, communities, or people who get the specific texture of this
If you've been through the pipeline and come out with something that actually documented who you are — I want to hear how you got there.