If not for MAGE, I wouldn't have stepped out of my comfort zone to take opportunities to speak on my discomfort.

I think 50 years of not serving gifted students caused this absolute lack of even very basic understanding of who they are.

I am grateful for groups like this one. It makes me feel less alone.

Like I do after listening to our district’s administration present to the school committee about how they are teaching “advanced learners” so well. Knowing our story does not match their official version and feeling very much like an outlier parent. Hearing some of the myths casually tossed out as fact and knowing people will continue to believe them. It’s a lonely feeling, being among groups of well-intentioned people who can’t or won’t understand. Advocacy and navigation can be all-consuming and exhausting at times.

I appreciate having places on this journey where people get it.

While schools educate by age, outliers keep turning to MAGE.

The beauty of having spaces/organizations like MAGE is that people are not alone in their journey to understand Giftedness and/or Twice Exceptionality and the efforts that are needed to meet the needs of these kiddos. I couldn’t imagine my Gifted story without MAGE.