There are hundreds of QTs from Nazis talking about how they were the smartest kids ever but the damn (((education system))) hampered them, and anyone who doesn't believe that they're hyper geniuses is simply a seething lib.
You're supposed to get over the "I was a gifted kid" stuff by the time you're 20.
The funny thing is, what they call "gifted" is just someone with a really efficient data storage and recall system. I was a "gifted" kid, always 98/99th percentile on every standardized test I took, but when it comes to things like synthesis of knowledge and generating new ideas, the truly creative stuff, I'm average at best. The educational system needs a new definition of gifted, new ways to identify those people and new modes of engagement to help them develop their gifts. That new definition still wouldn't include these guys, though, who believe they're gifted because they see through (((the conspiracy))). Bro, you've got narcissistic personality disorder, sit down and shut up.
Same. Read me a text then give me a multiple-choice test and I'll get every question right.
Read me a text then ask me what I learned, what it could be a metaphor for, what other texts express similar ideas? Uhhhhhhh
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Same here, incredible data storage/recall and incredible pattern-matching skills, absolute trash executive functioning and an inability to do anything that I'm not deeply interested in
Yep, it me. My first degree is in sociology and that's only because it interested me in my late teens/early 20s, so those are the classes I landed in because all my advisor really cared about was keeping me eligible for sportsball. If you need inspiration for the future, I went back to school in my 40s and absolutely nailed a bunch of STEM courses with a 3.9 GPA.
im pretty sure the whole idea was conceived to subdivide educational funds into competing programs to fight over ever-decreasing scraps instead of collectively figuring out why there's no fucking money
kids particularly good at something just take a higher level course in that subject there's absolutely no reason for anything beyond that except what grifters and evil neoliberals foisted on schools to squeeze the last few cents out
I can't remember Jack shit personally but if you put a square and a bunch of holes in front of me I'll figure it out eventually :very-smart: