You wonder if you are gifted.
Here are 15 questions, but a warning first.

Branching thought (4 questions). The marker Siaud-Facchin cites most often. From a single stimulus, your brain unfolds a parallel associative network of thoughts at high speed. Rich for creativity, disabling for following a linear instruction or writing a structured three-point essay. You reach the right conclusion but cannot rebuild your path because you did not walk it linearly.

Cognitive over-perception (4 questions). Depth of processing. You spot internal contradictions in a text on first read. You catch the gap between what someone says, what they think, and what they do not dare say, in real time. You dig compulsively into topics that interest you. You also see your own flaws with a precision that can hurt for days. This is the lucidity Siaud-Facchin describes in chapter 6: "When you are gifted, you never, ever feel superior to others. Quite the opposite."

Social and identity offset (4 questions). The feeling of being off, never quite in sync. The boredom in company that makes you doubt yourself. Impostor syndrome when you succeed. The sense of watching a different species when others talk about their daily concerns. This is what pushes many gifted adults to withdraw or to wear what Siaud-Facchin calls a "mask of normality" that ends up cutting them off from themselves.

Emotional over-perception (3 questions). Affective intensity. A measured criticism that echoes for days. A loved one's pain that enters you almost physically. A text or work of art that overwhelms you long after you closed it. Elaine Aron documented this trait in the general population (15 to 20 percent), Siaud-Facchin described it as central to the giftedness pattern. It often overlaps with high sensitivity (HSP) and emotional giftedness (HPE) without being reducible to them.

You have a compass, not a diagnosis. If you check strongly on three or more dimensions, you have a coherent cluster of signals consistent with what French and English-language clinical work describes in gifted adults. Worth digging further. Not worth self-labeling. The only true test remains the WAIS-IV administered by a neuropsychologist.

You can start reading seriously. Siaud-Facchin's book, Trop intelligent pour être heureux, remains the French-language reference despite its limits (title framed on suffering, no bridge to ADHD, dated vocabulary). I cover it in detail in the dedicated journal review. It has not been translated to English, so for English-only readers, Webb et al.'s Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults is the best entry point and covers twice-exceptionality in depth.

You can sort out what comes from giftedness versus something else. Many gifted adults are also ADHD, autistic or dyslexic without knowing it. That's twice-exceptionality, and giftedness often serves to mask the second diagnosis for years. If you recognize yourself in the giftedness profile but sense there is something more, look at the adult ADHD test (ASRS v1.1) or the twice-exceptional page.

You can ask the question of emotional giftedness and high sensitivity. Cognitive giftedness and emotional sensitivity are two distinct dimensions, even if they overlap. The page on giftedness vs emotional giftedness details the difference. To dig into high sensitivity specifically, the hypersensitivity quiz inspired by Elaine Aron is on the site.

For more context, the page Giftedness: when intelligence masks ADHD tells my own journey and explains why so many gifted children slip under the radar of the school system.