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I was put in GT classes in middle school because I went to a (shitty) private elementary school where every kid went on to GT. Somehow I struggled through GT until those classes weren't offered anymore (sophomore year of high school) and I hated every minute of it and was really bad at what they wanted me to do.
If I could do it over again, I would beg my parents not to put me in GT classes.
I had a guy in my class. We shared a first name and middle name. If he was going to school today he would have had a IEP. My high school guidance counselor who also created the class schedules was in a feud with my parents about some trivial thing. She knew but didn't care she swapped my almost by name doppelgangers schedules. Poor dude got stuck in advanced classes and they stuck me in the the regular classes. I didn't say anything since I hated the advanced classes. I had straight A's for the first time in my life. Unfortunately at around five weeks in they decided to swap us since my parents found out and of course the teachers knew it was a 'mistake'. I told them I wanted to stay in the regular classes but of course that simply wasn't possible. I could have had a high grade point in high school but since they insisted I had to be in the advanced classes where maintained a B to C grade in everything except computer science and physics. I know why I sucked in all the other classes today but back then I had that 'keen awareness of my own deficiencies'. My parents were so busy having their childish feuds that they refused to get me help for my problems.
I wonder how many of those who would fall in the blue area represented here have some form of Executive Dysfunction or as in my case additional issues?
When I was a primary school kid we didn't have gifted and talented classes. Kids who were ahead of the class could continue doing more and more advanced maths, move onto the next year's work, though in 6th grade the problems only went up to advanced 6th grade. I don't know what you would do if you were smart but unsatisfied with maths, I guess you'd be disruptive.
What does the GT stand for? I'm unfamiliar with the acronym, as it seems schools across the nation use different terms to describe the same thing.
Oh hey, throw in some crippling depression and overwhelming cynicism and I'm there too.
second place or (second region from peak) is apparently a hard place to be.
in alternate mindsets, it's all fine -- you are what defines you.
I don't see the parallel. Care to explain?
gifted people are gifted if you compare them with others (see how there's a graph on the bottom right panel).
if you take out the comparisons, everything is all fine as individuals are who they decide themselves to be.
I'm in this entire comment section and I don't like it
Hahaha!
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Oh, man, somebody actually thinks the "excellence" part of the curve isn't plagued by things like how much easier is to spot all the ways things can cause problems down the causality chain (guess what, when it's easy and natural to, for every action being considered, see 3 or more links down the chain of possible consequences, one always finds risks and negatives) and associated tendency for paralysis by analysis or simply the being quite abnormal compared to most people.
In my experience the perfect spot of the curve when it comes to felling good about oneself in this one human characteristic is to be what I call an "entry level genious" - a barelly into the genious IQ, just about intelligent enough to feel more intelligent than th majority of people one encounters but not so intelligent one is aware of the limits of intelligence and how little even genious adds to one's overall capabilities (and example of this would be Elon Musk), or in other words, on what is pretty much the peak Dunning-Krugger point of Intelligence.
(All the best salesperson types I've worked with were at that sweet-spot: intelligent enough to find it easier to outsmart most people and have high self-confidence but not enough to understand the potential problems and limitations of what they're selling)
