Having a high intelligence level shouldn't mean you owe anybody to 'make it big', regardless of what that means.
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Its nice to have a narrative for yourself.
I never burned out. I developed hobbies and found I enjoyed more physical work.
yep. having a life outside of your work and having an identity outside of it is huge.
sadly i meet so few people who have this.
How about being above average intelligence, but get placed in below average classes because one child study team person decided you had "auditory" problems while you were in kindergarten? I recently found out that my highschool guidance counselors lied about my placement tests and I should have been in honors science instead of remedial.
"I could've done physics" is the billionaire equivalent of "could have gone pro."
It's more describing how I'm decaying while still alive
Imho the gifted program is where you send smart kids to lose their social skills.
IDK about that, the gifted kids at my school seemed to have their shit together the most out of all of us and always seemed like the adults in the room. I don't know what they were getting that the rest of us didn't but I sure could have used some of it... I always felt like I was missing things that came so easily to them.
I don't think it's the gifted classes doing that, it's more helicopter parents forcing there kids to spend all there time after school studying or with tutors etc. Instead of hanging out or engaging in more social after school activities like sports.
You can be just as social in a gifted class as a regular class, you can't be as social at mathnasium as playing soccer.
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Whenever I hear people talk about how hard being a burnt out gifted kid is it just sounds like First World Problems honestly lol.
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