alt Hacker News> Because they really are both very smart and disabled at the same time.
There's a term for exactly this: "twice exceptional"!
> Because they really are both very smart and disabled at the same time.
There's a term for exactly this: "twice exceptional"!
Not only is this such a cringe term (we may describe poor aptitude in an area as an exception but exceptional?) it's also not accurate. If you want a milquetoast label call them "spikey" to denote the array of dimensions and the variance, or multimodal or similar.