I wasn't a gifted kid by any stretch of the imagination, but I've definitely encountered people like this in real life as it relates to autism.
Whew! Us scheming neurodivergents sure had it easy amirite?
Good to see this shit gets taken down quickly.
I let my curiosity get the better of me. Not looking at the removed comments next time.
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Yeah exactly. I think there's some real neurodivergence underlying at least some "giftedness" labels and it all gets swept under the rug with this dumbass name, the kids are never taught how to learn anything that isn't taught, and then because of the name and special treatment they turn out as super fucked up adults. Whole system is garbage.
you were used to people kissing your ass all day
I don't think this guy knows what most gifted programs are like. At least, in the experience of my poorly funded, half-okay state school, it was uhh not as he describes.
Ah yes, gifted program nerds, famous for having really positive school experiences.
New users just stirring up shit because they're hollow. I can almost tell when it's a new user dropping a shit take. It still sucks to see, but I'm glad it's usually not a regular user with their head up their own ass.
I can't imagine going to the trouble of finding your way here just to get banned after putting an embarrassing level of effort into the most asinine 2015 reddit post imaginable.
Jeez the issue is how damaging it can be to have parents who constantly claim their kids are geniuses and push them too hard and/or constantly build ridiculous expectations. I knew kids at school who had those parents. These are kids we are talking about. Now they grew up and want to vent online. But i guess its "personal responsibility" time.
Idk what they meant by “gifted”? I remember in elementary school myself and a few others (5 of us total) were considered “gifted” or some sort of advanced for that young age. One got offers and went to a prestigious private school, one was valedictorian of our high school, two became teachers,
And I joined the army and have become a communist largely because of it. Unless it was how I processed information, I don’t see the relevance. Also no one has ever kissed my butt so I missed out there too
Jesus. This is my life to a "T".
Scrolling through social media when I still had it kind of confirmed what I figured: people I grew up with money are mostly doing alright, those who didn't have money were struggling. Shocker.
Sure we went through the gifted program but I largely equate the success some of my (supposed) gifted peers have had is because of their parent's socioeconomic standing.
Didn’t help my mom had me in high school and I was largely raised for a while by grandparents. Dad was an EMT/firefighter and they got divorced When I was super young too.
I just didn’t pull my bootstraps up strong enough I suppose.
Copying what I said elsewhere
Look, there's all sorts of equity issues around who gets labeled as gifted, but at its core gifted and talented education is a form of special education. In the same way that it's inappropriate to not provide supports or accommodations for someone who has a learning disability, it's also inappropriate to to teach the exact same material in the exact same way to a student who is ahead of their peers.
A core principle of modern education is that students should be engaging with material and working on skills that they can't do alone but are capable of doing with support, with the goal that they then master it and are able to do it independently. Because that zone is different for everyone, sometimes wildly so, you have to differentiate in some way.
This neurotic keyboard diarrhea is a prime example of a beta who goes online with implicit intentions of externalizing mental trauma derived from their own personal failings, toxic masculinity, and a general lack of critical thinking which comes with being a reactionary cuckservative.
Trash like this who view "the real world" as paradoxically both a just vehicle to punish individuals who do not conform, and a difficult, unfair place to be, would ironically be shot in a more civilized society for such anti-human views.
This is such a wild comment. It combines alpha/beta discourse, psychoanalysis, a single really clear insight, and chapo style violent edge. This comment belongs in a museum or something.
For me it's like, you are "gifted", you do good at school, you know more than your peers, you process information a bit faster and then what? The schooling will catch up with your "gifts" and you will either adapt quickly, slowly, or not at all.
I remember reading at a "12th grade level" in middle school according to a test and feeling so smart. Then every year after that I felt a little bit worse because that result stayed the same. Suddenly you're in the 12th grade and there's nothing special about you anymore.
i aced literally any standardized test thrown at me in high school, but get to college and they want you to write two pages? i couldnt complete a single assignment and dropped out.
parents pushed me so hard only seeing the speed i was moving at, when only i could see the brick wall i was speeding towards, and i didnt dare express concerns because it would only land me with more accomodations i didnt need and wouldnt use but would make me feel more alienated from my peers.
Yeah, let's just pretend that tons of autistic people like myself don't have to work a full time job like everyone else.
Let's pretend the job interviews are easier and that you don't get the door shut in your face if you so much as mention autism. Sure, jobs can't legally discriminate against autistic people, but when the line is out the door for a new job they can just say "you weren't the most qualified choice" and pick someone that can speak normally. There's a reason it's harder to tell whether a young adult is autistic compared to a teenager: by the time we're in the workforce most of us have learned how to camouflage so that we can survive. And often times learning to camouflage will mean years of failed job interviews and settling for service jobs even if you have a degree.
:cool-bean: I type letters in alphabetically
I have a lot of time to catalogue emojis because I'm collecting cheques instead of ruining the world for some ghoul 💸💸💸💸💸 :CommiePOGGERS:
The gifted label just meant you learned to read like a year early. Most of the gifted kids in my elementary school just became stoners and regular ass proles. A few with rich parents got into good schools
gifted label just meant you learned to read like a year early.
Which is also an early indicator of autism. Could there be consequences to funneling autistic children into a high pressure environment?
It's literally a selector for autism and kids with rich parents. I think the idea to make it high pressure is intentional, because the poor autistic kids wash out from the stress leaving only the rich kids.
Gotta make everything look like a meritocracy.
