• SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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    6 hours ago

    A lot of those 'gifted child' memes have the same energy of 'I'm an empath' to be.

    Then again, I was always more of a C student.

    • wild_dog [they/them]
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      6 hours ago

      i was in the gifted program and i felt like all it did was make people more pretentious.

      • bumpusoot [any]
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        49 minutes ago

        I was in the gifted program and I felt like all it did was separate us from the 'normal' children so we'd be less annoying to the teachers.

  • StalinStan [none/use name]
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    5 hours ago

    i saw a tiktok that said the gifted program was run by three letter angencies to scout talent. especially from kids in under performing schools where they stand a chance to be turned against the government and indoctrinate those kids to liberalism.

    • dannoffs [he/him]
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      9 hours ago

      I've been recently diagnosed as an adult and it was one of the hardest things I've ever done. I like to joke that the ADHD diagnosis process with Kaiser Permanente is set up so that if you actually complete it, it's proof that you don't have ADHD.

      I also want to say I was saying this before Gianmarco Soresi started doing an almost identical joke.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        5 hours ago

        I've been trying, but despite having a public health system that in theory supports mental health, the cost is at least $5000 for a diagnosis and likely closer to $10000. So no point I guess.

      • SuperZutsuki [they/them, any]
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        9 hours ago

        "Neurotypical" sociopaths shape the world to make everyone suffer but especially ND, disabled, queer, and trans people.

        • BeamBrain [he/him]
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          8 hours ago
          CW: Ableism

          Fascist policy toward disabled people is to sort them into those who are useful to the capitalist machine and those who aren't, and kill those in the latter category. Liberal policy toward the disabled is the same, except they use social murder instead of bullets and gas chambers.